One More for Mary Ann

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............ one more addition to Mary Ann collections. This is from

the front cover of Laksmi Tantra. A Pancaratra Text. By Sanjukta Gupta

 

 

http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/DEVI/lakshminarayanan.html

 

 

Vasudevakamala: Visnu and Kamala in their androgenous form.

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Thanks, Nora! Can you post a link to the Taras you spoke of, too? I

have not yet located them.

 

You know, the Pic 2 of the Ardhanarishwara/i (in the SS DEVI folder)

does have all the implements of the statuette I purchased. And on

Pic 2, there isn't any voluptuousness of form for Shakti/Parvati.

It's a painting, and the clothing and face coloring indicate gender,

and the headdress on each side looks like what I recall on the mini-

statue, too. So the statuette could be an Ardhanari after all, just

not like what I am familiar with in other depictions (a la Pic 2

which is noticably feminine, and Pic 4 - a Nepalese version with a

one-armed female side, curvaceous and large breasted). And I am

happy the statuette has 2 arms on each side, like Pic 2. And to find

an Ardhanarishwara/i for $15 in the FDUSA, as Kochu calls us (former

democracy of the USA), means something! :-)

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy@s...>

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> ........... one more addition to Mary Ann collections. This is

from

> the front cover of Laksmi Tantra. A Pancaratra Text. By Sanjukta

Gupta

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> http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/DEVI/lakshminarayanan.html

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> Vasudevakamala: Visnu and Kamala in their androgenous form.

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