Daksha_yagna.jpg
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Description |
English:
"Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Lettered, inscribed and numbered 3. Sati, the first wife of Shiva, stands facing her father Daksha, seated on a throne. They argue after Daksha defiled a statue of the god and refused to invite Shiva to the sacrifice. Sati commits suicide in grief for her beloved. A sadhu, symbolising Shiva, is seated in the foreground."
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Date |
1895
date QS:P571,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium | Colour lithograph | ||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2003-1022-0-3 | ||||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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