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

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Authors

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.)

Keywords

Bronzes - South Indian, copper/bronze, book scan

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176879

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Basham Photographs

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Image

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Basham Collection

Date created

1959

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This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.

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