File:Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript.jpg

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anonymous: The Goddess Mahasitavati, Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript  wikidata:Q78878231 reasonator:Q78878231
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The Goddess Mahasitavati, Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Goddess Mahasitavati, Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Goddess Mahasitavati, Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting / palm-leaf manuscript Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Karnata-Malla period. Distemper on palm leaf, 2 1/16 x 10 3/4 in. (5.3 x 27.3 cm). This seated, six-armed green goddess has one hand raised in abhaya mudra and holds a bow and arrow in her upper hands and two unidentifiable attributes in her other hands. She wears fine jewelry and a long, patterned waistcloth (dhoti).
Date ca. 12th century
Medium gouache paint Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 5.3 cm (2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 27.3 cm (10.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+5.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+27.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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1987.246 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Nepal Edit this at Wikidata
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Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/37980 direct link
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