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Buddha Offering Protection
India (probably Bihar)
late 6th–early 7th century

Dancing Female Goddess, Firing an Arrow from Her Bow and Holding an Elephant Goad ", Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Head of a Bodhisattva
India (Bihar, Nalanda)
7th–8th century

Buddha Offering Protection (Abhaya Mudra), Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Water Pipe Top
19th century

White Tara, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Ritual Ewer with Manasa, the Snake Goddess
India (probably Bihar),
10th century

Vishnu with His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati
India (Bihar or West Bengal) or Bangladesh
11th–12th century

Standing Male Deity (possibly Shiva)
India (Bihar)
6th century

Female figurine
India, Patna, Bihar
3rd–2nd century BCE

Sealing Depicting the Buddha at the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya
India (Bihar)
9th century

Meditating Buddha with Alms Bowl Enthroned in a Foliated Niche
India (Bihar)
ca. late 10th–early 11th century

Shadakshari Lokeshvara
India (Bihar)
12th century

Vishnu Flanked by His Personified Attributes
India (Bihar)
early 9th century

Crowned Buddha Shakyamuni
India, Bihar or West Bengal
11th century

Spittoon
early 19th century

Birth of the Buddha
India (Madhya Pradesh or Bihar)
11th century

Tara
India, Bihar
12th century

Seated Multi-Armed Tara (The Buddhist Savioress)
India (Bihar)
9th century

The Wrathful Protector Mahakala: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)
India, Bihar or West Bengal
12th century

Female figurine
India, Patna, Bihar
3rd–2nd century BCE

Leogryph
India (Bihar)
ca. late 9th century

Water Pipe Top
19th century

Fragment of a lion capital
India, Masarh, Shahabad district, Bihar
4th–3rd century BCE

Bodhisattva Manjushri, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

The Wrathful Protector Mahakala in a Six-Armed Form: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)
India, Bihar or West Bengal
12th century

Manjuvajra, an Esoteric Manifestation of Manjushri
Eastern India, Bihar
11th–12th century; base sealed later in Tibet

Plaque with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Bident Spearhead
Indian, Bihar
18th–19th century

Seated Buddha Reaching Enlightenment, Flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya
India, Bihar, Nalanda monastery
late 10th–11th century

Eight Great Events in the Life of the Buddha: Folios and Covers from a Pancaraksha Manuscript
Bihar, eastern India
dated 1156–1157

Banya (drum)
Indian (north)
late 19th century

Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Bodhisattva Padmapani, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript
India (Bihar or West Bengal)
12th century

Buddha Preaching the First Sermon at Sarnath
India (Bihar, probably Nalanda)
11th century

Chalice
India (Bihar)
9th–10th century

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnapramita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript
India, Bihar or West Bengal
12th century

Standing Buddha
India (Bihar)
second half of the 8th century

The Bodhisattva Vajrapani
Eastern India, Bihar, probably Nalanda
7th–early 8th century