Lord Chaitanya in his divine form
Lord Chaitanya in his divine form

BENGAL, CIRCA 1900

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Lord Chaitanya in his divine form
Bengal, circa 1900
The saint depicted in his divine six-armed form holding the flute in his blue arms, invoking Krishna, while his raised green arms hold a bow and arrow and represent Lord Rama, his lowered golden arms hold a staff and water pot, representing Lord Chaitanya's position as a renunciate, flanked by two devotional figures, a sadhu and a nobleman
Image size: 22½ x 18½ in. (57.5 x 47 cm.)
Literature
A. Mookerjee, Kali, The Feminine Force, 1988, p. 20 (detail)

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