File:Brahma on Hamsa, Shani on vulture, and Yama on buffalo, Pahari school, Chamba style chitra 1740 CE.jpg

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an early 18th-century Pahari tradition painting from Himachal Pradesh; Yama (left), Shani (middle) and Brahma

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English: There are two notable aspects of this painting:
  • The Vedic deity Brahma is shown with a non-Vedic planetary deity Shani, and another Vedic, non-planetary deity (Yama).
  • Brahma is shown on a bird that is much closer in appearance to a swan (with a twisted beak like the other in the picture). This is unlike the geese or duck that is common in south India. It is likely that the original north Indian tradition was to associate Brahma with swan as his vahana, and Himalayan region artists having seen swans migrate into the north for winter their paintings show swans. The swans do not migrate into the Deccan or southern parts of India, and artists there drew geese or duck instead. A similar imaginative transformation is seen in historic art of Japan, where elephants and lions in Buddhist Jataka tales are shown with somewhat modified shapes.

This image is a derivative work on British Museum painting item 1968,0212,0.2.

This is a photograph of a 2-D painting produced and published in the 18th-century, therefore PD-Art guidelines of wikimedia commons apply. Any rights I have, I herewith donate it to public domain (CC0) through wikimedia commons.
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