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Add Or 3493
- Record Id:
- 040-003279648
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003279646
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00274b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3493
- Title:
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A four-headed figure seated on a stool , a small duck-like bird beneath him; a figure supplicating with an attendant standing behind. Below, 18 bleeding heads. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
- Scope & Content:
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A four-headed figure with red skin and yellow dhoti, seated on a high, wide stool, a small duck-like bird beneath him; to the left, a figure with cap and scarf supplicating before him, an attendant standing behind. Below, two rows of nine severed heads with ribbon-like streams of blood flowing from each.
Note: Explained by the artist as representing Indra Raja asking Sengel bonga to behead his eighteen sons whom he could no longer maintain and to make streams from their blood. Sengel bonga (literally,’fire’,’flame’or’flash’) is said to have agreed and the blood became the eighteen streams which must be crossed when going to the Jagannatha temple at Puri. According to the artist, the eighteen heads are regarded by local Santals as depicting Moreko Turuiko (the Five-Six), the third of the three major bongas especially worshipped in the sacred grove at the Baha festival.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Archer Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003279646
040-003279648 - Is part of:
- Add Or 3492-3498 : Add.Or.3492-3498 Scroll painting cut into seven sections depicting the Baha festival, the tigers’ god and Death’s kingdom.…
Add Or 3493 : A four-headed figure seated on a stool , a small duck-like bird beneath him; a figure supplicating with an attendant standing… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003279646[0002]/040-003279648
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 3492-3498
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Eastern India style
Jadupatua style - Start Date:
- 1939
- End Date:
- 1941
- Date Range:
- c 1940
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chitrakar, Malindra, fl 1940s
- Subjects:
- Hindu imagery