Dear Paolo,

These look to me like images of ritualized instruction of a sacred text, probably a tantra/āgama; the object on the ground between the ascetic on the left (presumably the teacher/ācārya) and figures on the right appears to a bookstand (called a yogapīṭha in chapter 1 of the Piṅgalāmata). One chapter of Jinah Kim’s new book Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra and a Material History of Indian Painting (UC Press) illustrates several examples of these (I don’t have the book at hand, but the relevant pages should be easy to locate).

Best wishes,

Shaman
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Shaman Hatley (he, him, his)
Chair, Department of Asian Studies
Associate Professor of Asian Studies & Religious Studies 
University of Massachusetts Boston

On Jun 27, 2021, at 6:01 AM, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

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I attached a similar image from the same site.

Best,
Paolo

Il giorno dom 27 giu 2021 alle ore 12:00 Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Dear Indologists,

during my fieldwork in Baihata Chariali (Assam) I took some pictures that I would like to identify (I attached one in this email). The scenes were probably sculpted within the iconographic programme of a temple complex belonging to the XII century. The site is not scientifically preserved and the remains of all the temples were messed up.

Any idea will be apreciated! 

Sincerely,
Paolo

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Paolo E. Rosati
PhD in Asian and African Studies
Mobile/Whatsapp: (+39) 338 73 83 472
Skype: paoloe.rosati


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Paolo E. Rosati
PhD in Asian and African Studies
Mobile/Whatsapp: (+39) 338 73 83 472
Skype: paoloe.rosati
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