Question from Homepage : can you help me identify my deity?

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Received this email today in SS homepage email :

 

"Hi. My name is Scott. A dear friend found this beautiful deity and

leave it as a gift for me. But i have novidea whom it is? Can you

help? thanks "

 

 

http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/shiva.jpg

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Can't really tell what's in the hands. Need a description. Obviously a form of Shakti Ma, due to the conch. Major statue. Statues that large are for public spaces.

 

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NMadasamy

 

Monday, June 19, 2006 11:32 PM

Question from Homepage : can you help me identify my deity?

 

 

 

Received this email today in SS homepage email :

 

"Hi. My name is Scott. A dear friend found this beautiful deity and

leave it as a gift for me. But i have novidea whom it is? Can you

help? thanks "

 

 

http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/shiva.jpg

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At any rate She is a form of Mahalakshmi.

 

 

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Llundrub

 

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:24 AM

Re: Question from Homepage : can you help me identify my deity?

 

 

Can't really tell what's in the hands. Need a description. Obviously a form of Shakti Ma, due to the conch. Major statue. Statues that large are for public spaces.

 

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NMadasamy

 

Monday, June 19, 2006 11:32 PM

Question from Homepage : can you help me identify my deity?

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Hi Llundrub:

 

I am not sure I agree on that. Why do you think it is Mahalakshmi?

 

Geek that I am, I enlarged and brightened the pic in Photoshop --

and I think it is simply a Siva Nataraja without the usual ring of

fire. There is plenty of sculptural precedent for that.

 

Upper right hand seems to be holding damaru; lower right is abhaya

mudra. Upper left is obscured because something has hung what seems

to be a hand-drawn eye on a rawhide cord. But I'll bet there could

be a ball of fire behind it, which would confirm it as Nataraja.

Likewise, lower left hand is partially concealed by some round

object draped over it; so I can't tell what mudra or object is there.

 

In any event, I am quite certain the figure is not female -- Siva is

androgynous to be sure; but the sculptor would almost certainly have

given a Devi a more prominent cup size. *lol*

 

In any event, that's my two paise ...

 

DB

 

 

, "Llundrub" <llundrub

wrote:

>

> At any rate She is a form of Mahalakshmi.

>

>

> -

> Llundrub

>

> Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:24 AM

> Re: Question from Homepage : can you

help me identify my deity?

>

>

> Can't really tell what's in the hands. Need a description.

Obviously a form of Shakti Ma, due to the conch. Major statue.

Statues that large are for public spaces.

>

> -

> NMadasamy

>

> Monday, June 19, 2006 11:32 PM

> Question from Homepage : can you help me

identify my deity?

>

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"Upper left is obscured because something has hung what seems

to be a hand-drawn eye on a rawhide cord."

 

It could be two pieces of wood, which are used to set the thaalam in

bajans or harikatha. Looks like that hand is holding either a pasam

or a snake.

 

The lower left hand is immediately below it holding Kaalagni (or

whatever it is called) with cymbals used in bajans hanging from it.

 

It is Nataraja.

 

, "Devi Bhakta"

<devi_bhakta wrote:

>

> Hi Llundrub:

>

> I am not sure I agree on that. Why do you think it is Mahalakshmi?

>

> Geek that I am, I enlarged and brightened the pic in Photoshop --

> and I think it is simply a Siva Nataraja without the usual ring of

> fire. There is plenty of sculptural precedent for that.

>

> Upper right hand seems to be holding damaru; lower right is abhaya

> mudra. Upper left is obscured because something has hung what

seems

> to be a hand-drawn eye on a rawhide cord. But I'll bet there could

> be a ball of fire behind it, which would confirm it as Nataraja.

> Likewise, lower left hand is partially concealed by some round

> object draped over it; so I can't tell what mudra or object is

there.

>

> In any event, I am quite certain the figure is not female -- Siva

is

> androgynous to be sure; but the sculptor would almost certainly

have

> given a Devi a more prominent cup size. *lol*

>

> In any event, that's my two paise ...

>

> DB

>

>

> , "Llundrub" <llundrub@>

> wrote:

> >

> > At any rate She is a form of Mahalakshmi.

> >

> >

> > -

> > Llundrub

> >

> > Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:24 AM

> > Re: Question from Homepage : can you

> help me identify my deity?

> >

> >

> > Can't really tell what's in the hands. Need a description.

> Obviously a form of Shakti Ma, due to the conch. Major statue.

> Statues that large are for public spaces.

> >

> > -

> > NMadasamy

> >

> > Monday, June 19, 2006 11:32 PM

> > Question from Homepage : can you help

me

> identify my deity?

> >

>

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i would agree with u. do you notice the "flying hair" thats "trademark" of Nataraja? A special treatment thats all.

 

Devi Bhakta <devi_bhakta > wrote: Hi Llundrub:

 

I am not sure I agree on that. Why do you think it is Mahalakshmi?

 

Geek that I am, I enlarged and brightened the pic in Photoshop --

and I think it is simply a Siva Nataraja without the usual ring of

fire. There is plenty of sculptural precedent for that.

 

Upper right hand seems to be holding damaru; lower right is abhaya

mudra. Upper left is obscured because something has hung what seems

to be a hand-drawn eye on a rawhide cord. But I'll bet there could

be a ball of fire behind it, which would confirm it as Nataraja.

Likewise, lower left hand is partially concealed by some round

object draped over it; so I can't tell what mudra or object is there.

 

In any event, I am quite certain the figure is not female -- Siva is

androgynous to be sure; but the sculptor would almost certainly have

given a Devi a more prominent cup size. *lol*

 

In any event, that's my two paise ...

 

DB

 

, "Llundrub" <llundrub

wrote:

>

> At any rate She is a form of Mahalakshmi.

>

>

> -

> Llundrub

>

> Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:24 AM

> Re: Question from Homepage : can you

help me identify my deity?

>

>

> Can't really tell what's in the hands. Need a description.

Obviously a form of Shakti Ma, due to the conch. Major statue.

Statues that large are for public spaces.

>

> -

> NMadasamy

>

> Monday, June 19, 2006 11:32 PM

> Question from Homepage : can you help me

identify my deity?

>

 

 

 

 

 

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