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The Goddess Durga Killing the Buffalo Demon, Mahisha
Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
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Organization | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Artist | Anonymous |
Spatial Coverage | Mewar Rajasthan |
Temporal Coverage | Circa 1800 |
Description | This painting portrays the climactic moment when Durga, shown as an eighteen-armed goddess, slays the demon Mahisha. Durga has already cut off Mahisha’s buffalo head and is shown bearing down on his human form, which emerges from the bleeding neck. Finished paintings of this subject are well known from the Mewar court and neighboring ateliers. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Access Restriction | Open |
Rights License | CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication |
Use Rights URL | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed |
Subject Keyword | Demon Durga Goddess Mahisha Metropolitan Museum of Art Mewar Rajasthan Tiger Painting Rajput Miniature |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Painting |