The Great Miracle at Cravasti
PLATE XXII
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This photograph, kindly supplied by Major van Erp, compares advantageously with Wilsen's drawing, lithographed on plate CCCLVI, r, of the great album which accompanies the volume of Leemans, Boro-Boudour dans Vile de Java. The original is situated to the left of the staircase of the eastern facade, ai the height of what leemans calls the fifth gallery, which, since the discovery of the original base of the stupa by Heer IJzerman, we know to be the fourth; it is, moreover, the last polygonal sculptured gallery before the three circular pseudo-terraces of the summit (cf. our pl. XXXII and Leemans, ibid., pp. 291 sqq. and pll. CCCLVI-CCCLXXXVIII, especially the first and the last, which form pendants to one another on each side of the eastern entrance). Two Buddhas, standing on lotuses supported by leaves, enclose two other Buddhas, and are themselves enclosed by six others in various mudras, all seated on aerial lotuses.
At the bottom are four lay attendants: two of them, the one on the left holding a fly-flapper and the one on the right with his hands joined, seem to be simple worshipping divinities; but in the two nearer to the standing Buddhas we must, according to all appearance, by the flowers which serve as attributes to them recognize two Bodhisattvas; on the right Maitreya, who in his position as future Buddha has an equal right 10 the honour of a lotus seat, holds a naga-pushpa; on the left Avalokitecvara holds a padma. Garlands hang down; it rains flowers. (Cf. above, pp. 165-6).
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