MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Virabhadra_Daksha.jpg (565x663) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Virabhadra Daksha.jpg en Painting on paper depicting Virabhadra The red-hued deity is coiffed exactly like Śiva This is an unusual rendering of Virabhadra The face of the Ganga peeps out of the dreadlocks while loose jatas fly around his head On his forehead is a prominent tripundra Side fangs protrude from his mouth and a bushy moustache grows on his upper lip In his upper right hand is a damaru in his upper left hand a flame the lower right hand carries a sword and the lower left a buckler The attributes in his upper hands are unusual as they generally bear the bow and the arrow He is dressed in a dhoti adorned by sashes on the sides and an angavastra is draped on his elbows Among his ornaments is a long white garland On his feet are toe-knob sandals At his left stands the ram-headed Daksha sporting tripundra marks on his forehead and arms dressed in dhoti and with the angavastra tied around his hips http //www britishmuseum org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details aspx objectid 3058344 partid 1 output Places 2f 2fOR 2f 2f41361 2f 2f41361-2-20 2f 2fPainted+in+Thanjavur 2f 2f 2f 2f 2f 2f orig 2fresearch 2fsearch_the_collection_database 2fadvanced_search aspx currentPage 1 numpages 10 Author ca 1820 PD-art Virabhadra Dhoti Daksha | ||||
