The Fasting Buddha is the common name for this Siddhartha statue. Based on the findings on the sculpture, Gautama Buddha was depicted here as a Yogic hermit, sitting in a meditative position, and as a thin and malnourished person as a result of his 49-day fast! The base of the sculpture shows a scene of his supporters pleading for him. Individual musculoskeletal and surface anatomical details on the surface of the indicate that ancient Indian painters from the Gandhara region had a thorough awareness of human physiology. They were aware of the general dimensions and locations of the bones, joints, and muscles, as well as the general locations of their insertions! Siddhartha Gautama left his throne as a royal prince in ancient India, which is now located Nepal, in search of enlightenment. In Bodh-Gaya (today in Bihar, North-Eastern India), he meditated and fasted for 49 days and nights at the base of the Bodhi tree. From then on, Siddhartha Gautama was referred to as the Buddha - The Enlightened One. In the 2nd or 3rd century AD, ancient Indian sculptors during the Kushan dynasty, Gandhara region, sculpted a stone sculpture of the fasting Buddha. Sculptors portrayed the starving Buddha seated in a meditation stance as in a withered state with the body being reduced to a skeleton frame!
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