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Detail of the Hindu god Brahma on his hamsa (goose or swan) after hiding...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Meyer (1965.335), www.clevelandart.org.
The Hindu god of war Skanda as Shanmukha (“Six Faces”) riding on a peacock and surrounded...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021 (2021.222)
A sculpture of Sadashiva or Panchamukha Shiva, a universal and supreme form of Shiva...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1993 (1993.387.1), www.metmuseum.org
Rig Veda verse 3.62.10, a hymn to the Sun called the Gayatri mantra, is personified...
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The 10-headed demon (rakshasa) king Ravana attended by another rakshasa....
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Gift of George P. Bickford (1966.143), www.clevelandart.org.
Hindu goddess Durga depicted in the act of slaying the demon, Mahishasura, in a display...
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The Bhagavad Gita consists of Krishna's ethical and religious advice to...
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Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja), bronze, from southern India, Chola...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Fund (1965.1130), www.artic.edu
Saraswati attending the god Brahma, from an illustration of the Adhyatma Ramayana,...
© British Library Board (MSS Eur C116/1); from the British Library Archive
In chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna grants Arjuna a vision of his...
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art (S2018.1.3), https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/S2018.1.3/ (CC0)