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Outside of one of two covers of a Cambridge University Library manuscript of the Buddhist Tantric text Kalacakratantra,

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dc.contributor.authorPal, Pratapaditya
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Bihar)
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T00:19:39Z
dc.date.available2019-10-15T00:19:39Z
dc.date.created1965
dc.date.updated2019-10-15T00:19:39Z
dc.description3 successive scenes of left show the worship of a hare, a goose and a peacock. As all three are on pedestals, may be some sort of totemism or of esoteric symbolism. Immediately after the dividing motif of the lotus a nimbate [sic], crowned figure stands in rigid, hieratic pose flanked by 2 adoring males. Then 3 animals with brown skin spckled with black who appear to be tigers, one perhaps chasing a man who is possibly climbing a tree. Subsequently another tiger appears, and the 2 animals fight. If [the] man is resting against the tree, however, may represent the Jataka story where the Bodhisattva offered himself to a hungry tigress who was about to devour her cubs. Then tiared [sic] figure who appears to have gashed his head with sword, the blood being drunk by sucimukhas. Then a crowned, nimabte [sic] figure seated on a lotus, fanned by 2 attendants. -- which, according to the colophon, was written in Bihar in the 15th cent. 128 palm leaves (13 1/4 x 2 1/4) written in Bengali script.
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediummounted transparency
dc.format.mediumb&w
dc.format.mimetypeimage/tiff
dc.identifierANUA 682-969
dc.identifier.otherIM-74
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/175962
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.subjectBengal & Bihar-- Painting, Bengal & Bihar
dc.subjectmanuscripts
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleOutside of one of two covers of a Cambridge University Library manuscript of the Buddhist Tantric text Kalacakratantra,
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.description.notesSource: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britian and Ireland, Parts 3 & 4, 1965, pp. 103-111 - "A New Document of Indian Painting" by Pratapaditya Pal) Pl. II (bottom)

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