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| Keywords: Nepalese - Bhairava with Goddess - Walters 543024.jpg This blue god of ferocious form and ten arms is Bhairava the angry manifestation of Shiva In Nepal he is popular with both Hindus and Buddhists and is also known as Mahakala His posture is somewhere in between the militant pratyalidha posture of Bhairava and the bent-kneed posture of Mahakala His stretched left leg is sufficiently bent to balance his spouse on the thigh while the right presses down on his mount who is the man nara Nine of his ten arms radiate symmetrically on either side except one that holds the skull cup against his chest The others hold various weapons and emblems By contrast his spouse only has two arms and sits in the graceful lalitasana posture although not too comfortably Her dangling left leg rests on her lion mount The right hand displays the gesture of charity and the left holds a skull cup century 18 gilt copper alloy lapis lazuli opal coral turquoise cm 25 2 16 5 9 2 accession number 54 3024 39014 de Sedley Gallery New York date and mode of acquisition unknown John and Berthe Ford Baltimore October 1965 by purchase Walters Art Museum 2006 by gift John Berthe Ford 2006 place of origin Nepal Walters Art Museum license Nepalese art in the Walters Art Museum Metalwork of Nepal Bhairava | ||||
