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An antique tsakli painting, Tibet, 19th Century depicting, within a violent burst of flames a standing wrathful red-bodied winged Heruka deity in yabyum with his blue-bodied Sakti. He has 3 angry faces, and six arm, with 4 legs. His hands hold variously a knife, a sword, a flayer, a curved sword, a scorpion and a skull cup while she holds a skull cup. He wears a garland of entwined snakes, a tiger-skin dhoti, a flayed elephant hide bone ornaments and askull diadem. She wears a leopard skin dhoti and bone ornaments, as they trample 2 (indistinct) prostrate wretches beneath their feet. 9 x 12.1cm


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