这尊雕像的历史可以追溯到基督教起源的年代，雕像取坐姿，通高130英尺，在南亚地区的重要性仅次于巴米杨大佛而位列第二。
Dating from around the beginning of the Christian era, and carved into a 130-foot-high rock, the seated image of the Buddha was second in importance in South Asia only to the Bamiyan Buddhas.