RELIEF OF SHIVA AND PARVATI UMA-MAHESHVARA
- Northeast India: Bengal or Bihar
- Hindu culture
- 11th - 12th century
- Black stone
- Width 34,5 cm x height 64 cm
Slender stela shape, rounded at the top. Centrally, in deeply moulded relief, the
depiction of the four-armed Shiva, seated in the lalitasana pose on a low double lotus. He is holding the trident and the skull bowl in his side hands. His drooping leg rests on the bull Nandi and his left arm is draped around his spouse Uma. She sits on his thigh, holding a lotus flower in her hand and resting her drooping leg on a lion. The prabha adorned with two celestial beings (vidyadhara).
Photo credit : Studio Asselberghs – Frédéric Dehaen
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