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Siva as Vinadhara-Dakshinamuti, Gilt bronze, 11th-12th Centuries

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Goetz, Hermann
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Dakshinamuti is the patron of the South Indian brahmans, Vina-Dhara (the lyre-player) the patron of music and art. The sitting god rests his foot on the demon Muyulaga
the vina is lost. The great mane of matted ascetic's hair is bound back. About original size. Musee Guimet. Paris. (Source: Goetz, H. India (5000 Years of Indian Art) Metheun, London, 1959. p. 178.)

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Basham Collection

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1959

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