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[nb-NO]Record tools[nb-NO] [nb-NO]Displays[nb-NO]	[nb-NO]Details[nb-NO] Remove from selection Toevoegen aan selectie CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection [nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]S1965-0035-001-0 [nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Fragment of Shiva Relief [nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Ascetic head dress. Lower right hand holding rosary in chinha mudra, flying figures with garland. The earliest Indian sculpture in the NUS collection “is a mid-8th century fragment of Shiva from Uttar Pradesh bearing stylistic features of the Gurjara-Pratihara period. It is fragmented: yet and by the ‘trisula’ and the ‘jatamukuta hair’, one can establish it as the image of Shiva. The locks of matted hair are elaborately tied in a coiffure generally known as ‘jatamukuta’. Originally, this sculpture would have been four armed. The chinha mudra, bearing rosary in the right hand indicates that this would be a teaching stance of Shiva as Dakshinamurti. There is as ‘maladhara’ garland bearer, floating on the extreme right corner which suggests that this was a complete relief with celestial figures on two sides, donors and attendants below, attending on Shiva; they are now missing. It is likely that this relief would have come from a Shaiva temple, placed in the cardinal niche, most probably on the western or southern wall where Shiva in teaching mode is found.” (Past, Present , Beyond: Re-nascence of an Art Collection, Page 26) [nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]India, Uttar Pradesh [nb-NO]Production period[nb-NO]8th C, Mid [nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Sculpture [nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Sandstone [nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO] H: 46 cm L: 39 cm W: 14 cm

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]S1965-0035-001-0

[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Fragment of Shiva Relief

[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Ascetic head dress. Lower right hand holding rosary in chinha mudra, flying figures with garland. The earliest Indian sculpture in the NUS collection “is a mid-8th century fragment of Shiva from Uttar Pradesh bearing stylistic features of the Gurjara-Pratihara period. It is fragmented: yet and by the ‘trisula’ and the ‘jatamukuta hair’, one can establish it as the image of Shiva. The locks of matted hair are elaborately tied in a coiffure generally known as ‘jatamukuta’. Originally, this sculpture would have been four armed. The chinha mudra, bearing rosary in the right hand indicates that this would be a teaching stance of Shiva as Dakshinamurti. There is as ‘maladhara’ garland bearer, floating on the extreme right corner which suggests that this was a complete relief with celestial figures on two sides, donors and attendants below, attending on Shiva; they are now missing. It is likely that this relief would have come from a Shaiva temple, placed in the cardinal niche, most probably on the western or southern wall where Shiva in teaching mode is found.” (Past, Present , Beyond: Re-nascence of an Art Collection, Page 26)

[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]India, Uttar Pradesh

[nb-NO]Production period[nb-NO]8th C, Mid

[nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Sculpture

[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Sandstone

[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]

H: 46 cm
L: 39 cm
W: 14 cm