This standing figure of Buddha, different from the khadagasana images of the meditating Jain teerthankaras, represents such phase of his life when for forty years he traveled from one place to other, from this end of India to that, telling the suffering mankind the truth that he had realised and propagating the religion of Three Noble Gems, Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Noble Path.
Amongst Buddha's earliest representations in art, especially sculpture, Buddha's standing images seem to have preceded others and to have prevailed more. It was undoubtedly for votive use that his images came into being and it were primarily the walls of monasteries and chaityas where such images were carved.
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