| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This throne originated in India where, as Madame Auboyer has shown, it signifies the assemblage of natural and supernatural forces and their obeisance to him (or her) who sits upon it.37 In Indian art, it is reserved for the rare universal monarch (cakravartin) and for Buddhas, bodhisattvas and other deities.
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