A NEPALESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SAMVARA AND NAIRATMYA, standing in pratyalidhasana on Bhairava and Bhairavi, both on a lotus-base, his principle hands holding vajra and ghanta, the others radiating around his body and holding his specific attributes, wearing tiger-skirt, mala of severed heads, many body-ornaments, his head with four faces, five-leaf crown elaborate hairdress with visvavajra, skull and moon emblems, his partned with her right leg around his middle, holding kapala and karttrika, wearing skirt, mala of skulls, flaming aureol behind moulded with skulls and vajras, the base with inscription, dated A.D. 1850

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A NEPALESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SAMVARA AND NAIRATMYA, standing in pratyalidhasana on Bhairava and Bhairavi, both on a lotus-base, his principle hands holding vajra and ghanta, the others radiating around his body and holding his specific attributes, wearing tiger-skirt, mala of severed heads, many body-ornaments, his head with four faces, five-leaf crown elaborate hairdress with visvavajra, skull and moon emblems, his partned with her right leg around his middle, holding kapala and karttrika, wearing skirt, mala of skulls, flaming aureol behind moulded with skulls and vajras, the base with inscription, dated A.D. 1850
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