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SOUTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY
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A Bronze Figure of Sadashiva
South India, 16th Century
The five-headed ten-armed deity seated in lalitasana on a small round lotus base, his principal hands in abhaya and varada mudras and holding a trident, sword, chopper, axe, cobra, noose, bell and fire in his remaining radiating arms, with four heads facing the cardinal directions and the uppermost crowned by a crescent moon and the head of Ganga, the bronze of high copper content
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
South India, 16th Century
The five-headed ten-armed deity seated in lalitasana on a small round lotus base, his principal hands in abhaya and varada mudras and holding a trident, sword, chopper, axe, cobra, noose, bell and fire in his remaining radiating arms, with four heads facing the cardinal directions and the uppermost crowned by a crescent moon and the head of Ganga, the bronze of high copper content
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Exhibited
Coral Gables, Lowe Art Museum, Gods and Goddesses of India, 1985/86, cat. no. 48.