One of the earliest and most important societies in mainland Southeast Asia, the Mon polity of Dvaravati was based around the Chao Phraya and Mae Klang river basins of central Thailand. Here, images of the Buddha were heavily influenced by contemporaneous Indian sculptural styles, particularly the style that arose around the Buddhist site of Sarnath in the early Gupta period. The present figure is draped in monastic robes which closely cling to the body, thereby displaying the sensitive modeling of the torso and focusing on the purity and fluidity of form. Such diaphanous drapery is a hallmark of the Sarnath style, which had a profound influence on the later Buddhist art of mainland Southeast Asia.