Obv: Deer standing right, crowned by two cobras, attended by Lakshmi holding a lotus flower.
Standing on a lotus-shaped base, it is 6.2 meters tall and weighs 5 metric tons
Around the statue are sites memorialising the four main stations in the life of Buddha: his birth symbolized by seven lotus flowers, his Enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, his first sermon and his death.
It consists of a spherical central section, with two symmetrical sets of five prongs, which arc out from lotus blooms on either side of the sphere and come to a point at two points equidistant from the centre, thus giving it the appearance of a "diamond sceptre", which is how the term is sometimes translated.
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