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| Keywords: Kama Shiva.jpg en Painting on paper depicting Śiva meditating Śiva sits on a tiger skin meditating beneath a banyan tree in a hilly landscape His knees are bound by a yogapatta In his upper right hand he carries a damaru in his upper hand the mriga his lower right hand carries the rudrakshamala and the lower left rests on his flexed knee The god wears the usual ornaments particularly elaborate here are his epaulettes An angavastra is draped on his shoulders and his third eye is clearly open His wife Parvati feels neglected and so she commands a diminutive green-complexioned Kama located to the right of the god who kneels on his parrot-drawn chariot while aiming his flowery arrow of love at the meditating god Angry at being disturbed Śiva opens his third eye in anticipation of destroying the hapless messanger Great care has been taken in the depiction of the sugar cane bow with its string of bees as well as in that of the lotus-tipped arrow of the god Noteworthy is the Vaishnava namam on Kama's forehead and arms The foreground is enlivened by rolling hills and tufts of grass http //www britishmuseum org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details aspx objectid 3058347 partid 1 searchText Kama fromADBC ad toADBC ad numpages 10 images on orig 2fresearch 2fsearch_the_collection_database aspx currentPage 1 Author ca 1820 PD-art Shiva burns Kamadeva Parrots in art Tiger fur-skins in art | ||||
