Buddha's Statue

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This statue belongs to The ‘Masterpieces of Madhya Pradesh’ exhibition, displayed in the Sculpture Gallery.

This Buddha’s statue was discovered from Gwarighat, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, and it’s assigned to the 2nd Century AD. Now it’s a pride collection of the State Museum, Bhopal Madhya Pradesh, displayed in a corner of the Sculpture Gallery. This statue is carved out from a Red or Brown sand stone.

Remains of a Buddhist monastery of the 5th century AD have been found near Gwarighat in Jabalpur. Important inscriptions in Brahmi script have been found in many caves in Bandhavgarh, which are of the 2nd century AD and archaeological discoveries show that the history of many caves in Bandhavgarh is connected with Buddhist activities. It is not surprising that this statue of Buddha was found in Jabalpur.

In this statue, a glimpse and similarity of the statues carved in Gandhara is visible. Both the hands and the lower part of this statue have been damaged and now this statue is a proud heritage of the Madhya Pradesh State Museum.

Buddha is wearing a traditional monastic robes, covering both shoulders and it appears that this is a statue of a standing Buddha. It is possible that the right hand is raised in Abhaya Mudra, which is a symbol of fearlessness, and he is shown holding a robe in his left hand. As in this statue, folds can be seen in the robe according to the body.

A round bulge on the top of the head of this idol, which symbolizes knowledge, is carved very significantly.

A disc in the form of a glowing circle behind the head, representing purity can be noticed.

Undoubtedly this Sculpture of Buddha was carved in Mathura during the Kushana period, as the wearing robe’s folds are significant and the Nimbus or halo around the head is decorated.

This is the most significant effort of Madhya Pradesh Archaeological department and State Museum, that they have tagged each sculpture discovery or finding place and tentative era when it was sculpted to assist the students and researchers.

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Assalamualaikum
@harfa1985
Thanks, Brother for your perusal and consideration.
Warm Wishes,
Rizwan

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Dear @rizbab28 ,

Beautiful presented about the museum. By the look of it, the Buddha sculpture in your post is in State Museum Bhopal. We shouldn’t spam Maps with adding sculptures as museum category inside the museum on Google Maps.

You can add photos to the State Museum Bhopal.

If you didn’t edit it/add it, please try to make Maps spam free by removing it.

Why Buddha’s statue might be a spam.

  • The statue is in museum which already have a profile.
  • Buddha’s statue might led false information or address to the user.
  • Every information that put out is same as of the State Museum Bhopal & might create confusion in users.
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Well said, @Rahul001

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@Rahul001 @MortenCopenhagen
This is not the presentation of State Museum, it’s about the statue recovered from Jabalpur.
You should be away as I don’t wish to discuss further.

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Good point @Rahul001

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Excellent @Rahul001

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Look dear @rizbab28, it’s not about recovery of sculpture but having two museums ( duplicates) on Google Maps.

If you didn’t add it, you can remove it.

Local Guides is always on lookout for spams in Google Maps & have initiatives to remove it & make Maps more friendly and convenient to use.

It’s always your choice of publishing a post but links/photos/any content you publish, should perfectly incline with guidlines of Google Maps & Connect.

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No, @rizbab28
@Rahul001 and @MortenCopenhagen are explaining you the rules of Google Maps, so they are exactly where they have to be.
The reply they (and others) gave to you is not about your post, where you nicely share with us your experience about a beautiful and important statue. This is perfectly fine.
What is wrong is to add the statue as a separate POI and to categorize it as a Museum, while the statue is already inside a museum. This is wrong, and generate confusion in Google Maps.
There are of course famous sculpture around the world that are “located within” museums or other locations, but they must be properly categorized and added in the right way. One of the most famous example is Mona Lisa, that is located within the Louvre Museum, in Paris.

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That famous painting, that attract million of visitors from all over the world, is properly categorized.

What Local Guides (with more experience about mapping) are doing is to share their experience to you, for you to avoid to add places in a wrong way in Google Maps. So kindly try to moderate your language and to respect what other Maps users are telling you. Please check once more The 5 core values of Connect

Thank you

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I think you’re kidding, @rizbab28 , or do you really not know how adding places to Google Maps works?

Point Of Interest, usually called POI, is simply a generic term for any listing inserted into Google Maps.
Each POI is a separate listing in Google Maps, requiring at least three identifying elements:

  • Name
  • Category
  • Location in Google Maps

When you entered the statue, you couldn’t have failed to enter the category (museum, in your case), otherwise Maps wouldn’t have provided you with the button to submit your edit.

This is why other Google users have pointed this out to you: because inserting Maps elements in this way is an incorrect procedure, and creates confusion and incorrect information.
So, please, before you criticize others, think about the mess you could potentially create in Maps by behaving the way you did.

Thank you

Ermes

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Hi @ErmesT
I have no interest in criticizing others, after thinking a lot about behavior I have come to the conclusion that all this is useless. The objets were added to the maps according to the laid down procedures. There are already so many errors in the maps, for which irresponsible employees are responsible. Now it does not matter to me, so this journey is coming to an end. Be happy and leave me on my own.
Thank you.
Rizwan

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Good luck, @rizbab28
But please touch Maps carefully. It’s true that there are many errors in Maps, but most of them are caused by Local Guides who, thinking to do the right thing, are adding places in a wrong way.

Have a nice day

Ermes

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Hi @ErmesT
It’s not that you’re the only one who’s smart, you didn’t need to be told this. I’ll go my way, and you’ll go yours.
Good luck.
Rizwan

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Not sure which Google Maps POI this discussion is going on, but this is a fascinating story about the statue, @rizbab28 ji, I loved it :+1:

If it is part of a museum, kindly share the Google Maps link of the museum, as I would like to visit there soon.

During my last visit to Tokyo’s Senso-ji temple, I found that 2 ordinary-looking statues that might have special significance, and are located within the premises of the temple, have been added as a POI. Check Here.

Not sure if this is correct to do or not.
Anyways, I did not add them to Google Maps :smiley:
But the scenario looks similar to the present discussion.

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I am interested in travel and knowledge, dear @rizbab28 bhai
You are my virtual tour guide :handshake:

Other things, you have to battle out according to your perception and communication with local guides on the platform. I am not aware of everything about the issue so far.

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Hi Brother @TusharSuradkar
You can very well add, category will be Sculpture and rest you know, nothing new. You should bring your knowledge in the public, who knows which piece can change someone’s life as many researchers are awarded Doctorate degree for one particular quotation or Poetry’s stanzas.

Warm Wishes,
Rizwan

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