AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE DEVI MAHATMYA SERIES: KALI ATTACKS THE DEMON ARMIES OF SHUMBHA AND NISHUMBA
INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1780
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE DEVI MAHATMYA SERIES: KALI ATTACKS THE DEMON ARMIES OF SHUMBHA AND NISHUMBA INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1780 The Great Goddess, Ambika, sits serenely on her lion vehicle, while her terrible manifestation, Kali, with wild hair, sagging breasts and emaciated body, devours an elephant with one hand and reaches for a pair of chariot horses with another, towering over the asura army of Shumbha and Nishumba, the reverse inscribed with two lines of Sanskrit verse in black ink from the Devi Mahatmya , describing the scene inscribed in black ink, with "No. 14" in pencil above opaque pigments on paper 6 ¾ x 10 ½ in. (17.1 x 26.7 cm.)
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE DEVI MAHATMYA SERIES: KALI ATTACKS THE DEMON ARMIES OF SHUMBHA AND NISHUMBA
INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1780
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE DEVI MAHATMYA SERIES: KALI ATTACKS THE DEMON ARMIES OF SHUMBHA AND NISHUMBA INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1780 The Great Goddess, Ambika, sits serenely on her lion vehicle, while her terrible manifestation, Kali, with wild hair, sagging breasts and emaciated body, devours an elephant with one hand and reaches for a pair of chariot horses with another, towering over the asura army of Shumbha and Nishumba, the reverse inscribed with two lines of Sanskrit verse in black ink from the Devi Mahatmya , describing the scene inscribed in black ink, with "No. 14" in pencil above opaque pigments on paper 6 ¾ x 10 ½ in. (17.1 x 26.7 cm.)
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