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Durga is the name of the goddess who personifies the sum total of the powers of all the male gods combined. When she vanquishes the fierce buffalo demon named Mahisha, she is described as having many arms, each holding a different weapon: bow and arrow, trident, discus, shield, sword, mace, and the conch shell that sounds the start of battle. The horizontal lines on her arms are sectarian markings. At the moment depicted in this painting, she has succeeded in beheading the buffalo demon and shooting arrows into his true form that climbs from its neck. Artists in the foothills of the western Himalayas, where this work was made, depicted Durga’s mount as a tiger—lions and tigers had synonymous meaning throughout India as emblems of shakti, or divine creative energy.
India, Pahari Hills, Nurpur school, early 18th Century
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Overall: 15.5 x 21.2 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Abandoned: January 2008
I finished knitting these socks in January 2008, and have been putting off weaving in the ends since then. Look at all those ends!! Weaving in the ends sucks.
I made a plan, this is the 4th version so far as we've had to fit in the photocopier and Ann's desk by the door