Textile with Sacred Goose (Hamsa) Design 15th-early 16th century India (Gujarat, for Indonesian Market) This Gujarati block-printed and dyed coarse spin cotton textile with hamsa design is a typical western Indian export cloth of the medieval period. In this block-printed repeat design, eight geese (hamsa) encircle a round flower bud, and unopened buds fill the corners, intercepting others to form a four-pointed filler. The hamsa motif has been pervasive in Indian art since at least the Sunga period (3rd-1st century BC) when it most famously is depicted as a frieze decoration on the Vajrasana, the Diamond-throne’ platform which marks the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment at Bodhgaya, eastern India. The pure white goose was widely evoked in Indian literature, but it is as the embodiment of the purity of the Buddha message (sometimes invoked as its messenger), as told in the Hamsa Jataka, that it secured a lasting presence in Indian iconography. The hamsa appears as a repeat pattern in

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Textile with Sacred Goose (Hamsa) Design 15th-early 16th century India (Gujarat, for Indonesian Market) This Gujarati block-printed and dyed coarse spin cotton textile with hamsa design is a typical western Indian export cloth of the medieval period. In this block-printed repeat design, eight geese (hamsa) encircle a round flower bud, and unopened buds fill the corners, intercepting others to form a four-pointed filler. The hamsa motif has been pervasive in Indian art since at least the Sunga period (3rd-1st century BC) when it most famously is depicted as a frieze decoration on the Vajrasana, the Diamond-throne’ platform which marks the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment at Bodhgaya, eastern India. The pure white goose was widely evoked in Indian literature, but it is as the embodiment of the purity of the Buddha message (sometimes invoked as its messenger), as told in the Hamsa Jataka, that it secured a lasting presence in Indian iconography. The hamsa appears as a repeat pattern in

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