Toshali Sands :: Khichlng

The wealth and the lotus throne and one of them etiquettes unearthed here clearly appears to be roaring with vigor. Indicate that it was the place where The image, however, seems engrossed in deep meditation and reveals soft modelling and pulsation of life within. A few figures of Vajrasana Buddha are found in this site and they differ both in style and execution.

They sit on the lotus not on cross-legged posture but nearly placing the right leg upon the left one and they display in right hand not the Bhumisparsa but Varada attitude, although the left hand is lying with palm upwards, on the Utsanga. In each of these images, Aswatha branches are seen shooting up from the unisa and heavenly beings paying obeisance from the sky above, while below the lotus throne a devotee is found worshipping with several upacharas. All these Buddha figures are however, much inferior in artistic merit to the colossal image of Bhumijparsa Buddha and although they display great vigour, they lack in soft modelling and appeared conventional and crude.

The lower half of a colossal image of Lokeswar ( BoddhisQtva Avlokiteswara) which was recovered from a mound in 1974 has been preserved in Khiching Museum. An inscription incised on the base of the image states that the image of the Lord Lokesh has been made by Sri Dhanani Varoha, Assisted by Kirti for Raja Sri Rayabhanja, found at Bamanghati (presently Rairangapur) in 1870.