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class="infobox-above">Didarganj Yakshi</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg/250px-Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="543" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg/375px-Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg/500px-Didarganj_Yakshi_statue_in_the_Bihar_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1129" data-file-height="2453" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Didarganj Yakshi (Chauri Bearer) with <a href="/wiki/Fly-whisk" title="Fly-whisk">fly-whisk</a> (chauri) is held in the right hand whereas the left hand is broken, in <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Museum" title="Bihar Museum">Bihar Museum</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;">Material</th><td class="infobox-data">Polished <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;">Period/culture</th><td class="infobox-data">3rd century BCE</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;">Discovered</th><td class="infobox-data">25°34'18"N 85°15'45"E</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;">Place</th><td class="infobox-data">Didarganj, <a href="/wiki/Patna" title="Patna">Patna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;">Present location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bihar_Museum" title="Bihar Museum">Bihar Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media 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div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:India_relief_location_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Discovery is located in India"><img alt="Discovery is located in India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/India_relief_location_map.jpg/240px-India_relief_location_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/India_relief_location_map.jpg/360px-India_relief_location_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/India_relief_location_map.jpg/480px-India_relief_location_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1615" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:36.703%;left:57.07%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Discovery"><img alt="Discovery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Discovery</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Didarganj Yakshi</b> (or <b>Didarganj Chauri Bearer</b>; <a href="/wiki/Hindi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindi language">Hindi</a>: <span lang="hi">दीदारगंज यक्षी</span>) is one of the finest examples of very early Indian stone statues. It used to be dated to the 3rd century BCE, as it has the fine <a href="/wiki/Mauryan_polish" title="Mauryan polish">Mauryan polish</a> associated with <a href="/wiki/Mauryan_art" title="Mauryan art">Mauryan art</a>, but another Yakshi is also found but without polish so it is also dated to approximately the 2nd century CE, based on the similarity of analysis of shape and ornamentation,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the 1st century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The treatment of the <a href="/wiki/Forelock" title="Forelock">forelock</a> in particular is said to be characteristically <a href="/wiki/Kushan_Empire" title="Kushan Empire">Kushan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The sculpture is now in the <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Museum" title="Bihar Museum">Bihar Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Patna" title="Patna">Patna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>, India,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> close to where it was found in 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patna, as <a href="/wiki/Pataliputra" title="Pataliputra">Pataliputra</a>, was also the Mauryan capital. </p><p>The statue is 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m) tall on a pedestal of 1 foot 7.5 inches (49.5 cm) made of <a href="/wiki/Chunar_stone" title="Chunar stone">Chunar sandstone</a> highly finished to a mirror-like polish.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The life-size standing image is a tall, well-proportioned, free-standing sculpture made of sandstone with the well-polished surface associated with <a href="/wiki/Mauryan_polish" title="Mauryan polish">Mauryan polish</a>, although this persisted for some time after the empire fell. The <a href="/wiki/Fly-whisk" title="Fly-whisk">fly-whisk</a> (chauri) is held in the right hand whereas the left hand is broken. The lower garment creates a somewhat transparent effect. Like many of the earliest large sculptures in Indian art, it represents a minor spiritual figure or deity, a <a href="/wiki/Yakshi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yakshi">yakshi</a>, rather than one of the major deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMichell197733_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMichell197733-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Context_and_style">Context and style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Didarganj_Yakshi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Context and style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Female yakshi or <a href="/wiki/Yakshini" title="Yakshini">yakshini</a>, and male <a href="/wiki/Yaksha" title="Yaksha">yaksha</a>, are very minor figures, on the borders of deity. Yakshi are often local spirits of water and trees. They are figures from Indian <a href="/wiki/Folk_religion" title="Folk religion">folk religion</a> who were accepted into the pantheons of <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHarle199428-31_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarle199428-31-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERowland196797–100_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERowland196797–100-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMichell197733_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMichell197733-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the earliest surviving Indian stone <a href="/wiki/Monumental_sculpture" title="Monumental sculpture">monumental sculptures</a>, they, or at least figures identified by modern art historians as them,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are very common subjects, preceding those of more significant deity figures. The Buddhist <a href="/wiki/Stupa" title="Stupa">stupa</a> sites of <a href="/wiki/Sanchi" title="Sanchi">Sanchi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bharhut" title="Bharhut">Bharhut</a> both have many, those at Bharhut carrying inscriptions with their names.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHarle199428-31_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarle199428-31-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERowland196797–100_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERowland196797–100-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The figure has the elements that would continue to be expected in female Indian religious statues "an elaborate headdress and jewellery, heavy spherical breasts, narrow waist, ample hips and a graceful posture ... [with] only sketchy attempts to portray such details of physical anatomy as musculature; rather it is a quality of inwardly held breath that is conveyed. This breath (<i><a href="/wiki/Prana" title="Prana">prana</a></i>) is identified with the essence of life...".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMichell197737_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMichell197737-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For another scholar, the statue shows "for the first time the sculptural realization of a full and volumptuous form with a definite sense of its organic articulation".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERowland1967100_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERowland1967100-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast to the front, the "figure is flattened at the back with only a perfunctory indication of modelling".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERowland1967100_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERowland1967100-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a recent study the Didarganj Yakshi may represent the goddess Indrakshi <a href="/wiki/Durga" title="Durga">Durga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_history">Modern history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Didarganj_Yakshi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Modern history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Didarganj Yakshi was excavated on the banks of the Ganges River, at the hamlet of Didarganj Kadam Rasual, northeast of the Qadam-i-Rasul Mosque in <a href="/wiki/Patna" title="Patna">Patna</a> City, on 18 October 1917 by the villagers and by the noted archaeologist and historian, Professor J N Samaddar<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Professor Samaddar, with the help of the then president of Patna Museum Committee and member of Board of Revenue, Mr. E. H. C. Walsh and Dr. D. B. Spooner, the noted archaeologist, retrieved the figure in Patna Museum, Patna. </p><p>The statue's nose was damaged during a travelling exhibition, The Festival of India, en route to <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, leading to a decision not to send it abroad again.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To celebrate the centenary year of the excavation, Sunita Bharti, a theatre director from Patna, produced and directed a play, <i>Yakshini</i>, in 2017. It was staged by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR, Govt. of India) and the <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_National_Centre_for_the_Arts" title="Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts">Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts</a> (IGNCA, Govt. of India), New Delhi. <sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yakshini.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Another view, Bihar Museum."><img alt="Another view, Bihar Museum." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Yakshini.jpg/77px-Yakshini.jpg" decoding="async" width="77" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Yakshini.jpg/116px-Yakshini.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Yakshini.jpg/155px-Yakshini.jpg 2x" data-file-width="489" data-file-height="1257" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Another view, <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Museum" title="Bihar Museum">Bihar Museum</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Another view, Bihar Museum."><img alt="Another view, Bihar Museum." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg/71px-Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg" decoding="async" width="71" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg/107px-Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg/143px-Didarganj-Yakshi-3bc-Patna.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1525" data-file-height="4259" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Another view, <a href="/wiki/Bihar_Museum" title="Bihar Museum">Bihar Museum</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Side view."><img alt="Side view." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg/133px-Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg" decoding="async" width="133" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg/200px-Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg/266px-Patna_Museum_Chauri_bearer_side.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="2700" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Side view.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:CunninghamBharhut.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Yakshi with tree from Bharhut, perhaps 100 BCE."><img alt="Yakshi with tree from Bharhut, perhaps 100 BCE." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/CunninghamBharhut.jpg/131px-CunninghamBharhut.jpg" decoding="async" width="131" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/CunninghamBharhut.jpg/196px-CunninghamBharhut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/CunninghamBharhut.jpg/261px-CunninghamBharhut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="860" data-file-height="1315" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Yakshi with tree from <a href="/wiki/Bharhut" title="Bharhut">Bharhut</a>, perhaps 100 BCE.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kushan_woman,_head_with_jewellery.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An example of hairstyle with frontal bun, under the Kushans"><img alt="An example of hairstyle with frontal bun, under the Kushans" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Kushan_woman%2C_head_with_jewellery.jpg/200px-Kushan_woman%2C_head_with_jewellery.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Kushan_woman%2C_head_with_jewellery.jpg/300px-Kushan_woman%2C_head_with_jewellery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Kushan_woman%2C_head_with_jewellery.jpg/400px-Kushan_woman%2C_head_with_jewellery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An example of hairstyle with frontal bun, under the <a href="/wiki/Kushan_Empire" title="Kushan Empire">Kushans</a> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Toilet_bearer,_Kushan_period_(2nd_century_CE),_Diyara_(Faizabad)_Benares_Hindu_University_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An example of statue under the Kushans (2nd century CE), Diyara (Faizabad) Benares Hindu University Museum."><img alt="An example of statue under the Kushans (2nd century CE), Diyara (Faizabad) Benares Hindu University Museum." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Toilet_bearer%2C_Kushan_period_%282nd_century_CE%29%2C_Diyara_%28Faizabad%29_Benares_Hindu_University_Museum.jpg/100px-Toilet_bearer%2C_Kushan_period_%282nd_century_CE%29%2C_Diyara_%28Faizabad%29_Benares_Hindu_University_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="200" class="mw-file-element" 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(1994). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo00harl"><i>The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent</i></a></span>. Pelican History of Art (2nd ed.). Yale University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0300062176" title="Special:BookSources/0300062176"><bdi>0300062176</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Art+and+Architecture+of+the+Indian+Subcontinent&rft.series=Pelican+History+of+Art&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0300062176&rft.aulast=Harle&rft.aufirst=J.C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fartarchitectureo00harl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADidarganj+Yakshi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMichell1977" class="citation book cs1">Michell, George (1977). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hindutempleintro0000mich"><i>The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to its Meaning and Forms</i></a></span>. 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Pelican History of Art (3rd ed.). 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