Boar avatar of Vishnu, four-armed carrying club and deer and playing a double-ended drum (Mridangam). One of 12 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities.
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Boar avatar of Vishnu, four-armed carrying club and deer and playing a double-ended drum (‘Mridangam’). Inscribed: ‘Kurma avataran (Vishnu)’. Note: This seems more Saiva than Vishnu. ‘Kurma’ avatar is the tortoise.
Two strange figures, both in respectful postures, one blue with a five-headed cobra hood and wearing a tiger skin, the other half-man, half-tiger. One of 12 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities.
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Two strange figures, both in respectful postures, one blue with a five-headed cobra hood and wearing a tiger skin, the other half-man, half-tiger. Inscribed: ‘Rishi’. Note: Is the first one Ananta, the second Narasimha or the Man-Lion?.
A four-armed Sita seated in the ashoka grove, while Hanuman above in a tree lets down Rama’s ring with his tail. One of 12 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities.
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A four-armed Sita seated in the ashoka grove, while Hanuman above in a tree lets down Rama’s ring with his tail.