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- Title
- Vishnu as Varaha, the Cosmic Boar
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Physical Description
- This intricate stele has a large Varaha in the center. He is in the archer’s stance, with his right leg extended and his left leg bent resting on a lotus held up by a male and female snake figures. They have human bodies from the waist up and knotted snake bodies below. Varaha has a human body with the head of a boar, his head thrown back supporting the figure of the earth goddess who holds on to his snout. A lotus leaf acts as an umbrella over his head. Three of his four arms are intact with his right one at his hip holding a broken lotus, only the stem survives, and the two left hands holding a conch at his chest and a discus at his knee. The broken arm held the club and the top of it is still visible next to the pavilion on the left over his shoulder. Besides the two snake figures, three figures stand on the base to either side, the other one female, while the others are male. The inner two hold the conch and discus and can be considered shankhapurausha and cakrapurusha, the personifications of the two weapons. The figure in the center on the left ahs his hand raised over his head and the one on the right holds an arrow. They stand against pilaster forms, each surmounted by a pillared pavilion. To the sides of the pillars, vyalis (a composite animal) decorate the columns, a conventional throne motif and above them on the outside some devotee figures, the one on the right is broken. Against the pillar a broken animal figure is to the right and a seated devotee is seen on the left. The two pavilion forms house gods. The one to the left houses a small four-armed image of Brahma (three of his heads show, the central one with a beard) holding his usual attributes, a ladle for ritual and probably a pot, etc.. That on the right houses a four-armed figure of Shiva holding a trident and other attributes. The top of the stele is broken, but there is a devotee to the left and a row of seven figures all with hand up in a reassuring gesture and the other holding a pot. Could there have been two more and represent the nine planets? They do not appear very different one from the other.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.167
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vishnu Stele, four-armed Vishnu with two of his attributes personified
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Vishnu stand in a strict unbending pose, samabhanga and has four hands. Reading clockwise from the front right hand, he holds lotus, a club, a discus and a conch. The lotus and conch are also personified with full standing figures at the base below his tow front hands, the lotus as a female figure to his right and the conch as a male figure to his left. On the pointed arch behind the figure a flying figure holding garlands is carved in shallow relief to either side of his crown. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth, the folds of the garment are articulated with a flared section down the center. He wears a long garland down to his knees, a sacred thread and various pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, armlets, a necklace and large earrings and an elaborate crown.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2003/1.385
- Medium and Support
- black schist
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Unidentified Goddess (Tara?)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.75
- Medium and Support
- bronze with copper, tin and zinc
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Prajñâpâramitâ (Buddhist Goddess of Wisdom)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.76
- Medium and Support
- bronze with copper, tin and zinc
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Four-Armed Esoteric Deity, probably Avalokitesvara
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.77
- Medium and Support
- bronze with copper, tin and zinc
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vairocana Buddha, Seated in the Mudra of the Union of Six Elements
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.78
- Medium and Support
- bronze with copper, tin and zinc
- relevance
- rank 0.00000