K0457 KHMER SEATED TRIMURTI (THE GODS BRAHMA, VISHNU AND SHIVA)
Angkor Period, Style of Banteay Srei, 10th Century
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K0457 KHMER SEATED TRIMURTI (THE GODS BRAHMA, VISHNU AND SHIVA)
Angkor Period, style of Banteay Srei,
10th Century
Sandstone
Total Height 66cm, Width 47cm, Depth 35cm,
Price: PRICE ON REQUEST
Description: Trimurti (threefold form), in Shivaism the gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (actually Sadashiva, five-headed supreme form of Shiva), conceived as an emanation of the supreme Shiva, who is himself nonmanifest and therefore incapable of representation.
The Sadashiva with multi-armed and multi-headed sits in the middle. He wears the Jata with the locks of hair are braided and arranged in horizontal layers and the symbol of the crescent moon in his hair of the top head. The five heads are arranged in two tiers; all have the third eye on thier forehead.
The four-faces Brahma with four arms is on his right. And the Vishnu with four arms is on this left. |
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