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Śiva's Family Threading Heads Painting, India.
Śiva and his consort Pārvatī represent the
paradigmatic divine family. Here we observe them serenely engaged in a
sacred pastime. Pārvatī holds little Kārtikeya in her lap while their second
son, the elephant headed Ganeśa, helps his father string together garlands
of severed human heads. The setting is a charnel ground. Body parts,
skeletons and feeding jackals picturesquely adorn the foreground. |
