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Potala | all galleries >> Galleries >> tsakli > Sunday, August 25, 2019
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

An antique 19th Century or earlier tsakli painting in mineral pigments depicting a great, green bodied winged Heruka deity with 3 heads, four legs and voluminous streaming yellow hair which is held back by a triple skull diadem. He is in yabyum with his green bodied Sakti, who wears a leopard skin dhoti as they step vigorously to the right. He wears flayed elephant and human skins about his shoulders, a tiger skin dhoti, and his principal hands hold a medicinal 'pill' and a skull cup, while his secondary hands all gesture in Tarjani mudra, the gesture of warning.9 x 10.10cm


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