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Attendant figure representing Gada-Nari (personification of the great mace of the God Vishnu)

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dc.contributor.authorSotheby's
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Punjab)
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T00:17:48Z
dc.date.available2019-10-15T00:17:48Z
dc.date.created1974
dc.date.updated2019-10-15T00:17:47Z
dc.descriptionThis figure would have originally come from a group with the central figure of Vishnu, the smaller figures of Gada-nari and Cakra-purusa to either side (personifications of the God Vishnu's great weapons, the mace (gada) and war discus (cakra). Standing on a tiered rectangular base, wearing a necklet and long pendant between her breasts, with large circular earrings and diadem, her hair worn in a bun to the right side of her head, her plump face with copper lips and silver-inlaid eyes, her right hand holding a fly-whisk, two long garlands hang over her arms, round her back, and fall almost to her feet, wearing armlets and a jewelled girdle, with semi-circular aureole withich continues to her shoulders, flat support also behind her legs. -- 19 5/8 in. (49.8 cm.), Punjab Hills, c. 12th century.
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediummounted transparency
dc.format.mediumcolour
dc.format.mimetypeimage/tiff
dc.identifierANUA 682-945
dc.identifier.otherIM-32
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/175939
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBasham Collection
dc.rights.licenseThis item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.
dc.subjectNorth Indian Dynasties-- Bronzes N. India - General
dc.subjectcopper/bronze
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleAttendant figure representing Gada-Nari (personification of the great mace of the God Vishnu)
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.description.notesSource: Sotheby's Cat for sale on 8 July 1974, item 39

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