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Project / Collection Polier Collection Language Not applicable Subject festivals (Hindu)

1. Or 4769, f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.7
Title:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, with other divinities.
Scope & Content:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess and others. They show Durga, ten armed, all but her principal arms treated like wings behind her shoulders, but all bearing weapons. She is standing with one foot planted on her lion, the other on the shoulde...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

2. Or 4769, f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.8
Title:
Kali standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva. This is possibly an image as constructed for the Kalipuja festival.
Scope & Content:
Kali, black, her black hair loose down her back, her red tongue protruding, wearing a skirt of human hands and a necklace of heads, her earrings of human figures, four armed (head, sword, gesture, reassurance), standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva, a snake around his body, and wea...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

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