Brick inscribed with the Sutra on Dependent Origination
On display
One of several inscribed bricks discovered in 1896, it is incised with Sanskrit text in the Gupta script. This Buddhist Sutra examines the twelve links in the chain of causation from which all suffering arises. When these causes are removed, suffering also will disappear.
Details
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Title
Brick inscribed with the Sutra on Dependent Origination
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Associated place
Gopalpur (place of creation) -
Date
late 5th century - early 6th century AD
Gupta Period (AD 320 - 600) -
Material and technique
terracotta, inscribed
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 29 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Mrs Hoernle, 1923.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EAX.404
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Further reading
Zwalf, W., Buddhism: Art and Faith (London: British Museum Publications, 1985), no. 34 on p. 44, illus. p. 44 fig. 34
Ahuja, Naman, Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018), no. 121.3
