Posted on: 1 February 2012

Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy, dating mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries, containing nature studies, genre scenes, and some Hindu devotional images.

Parvati and Shiva seated on a tiger skin; the blue-skinned Vishnu seated on a lotus flower holding his four attributes: a conch shell, club, disc, and lotus flower; Brahma with four heads, holding scriptures; the eagle-headed Garuda; with a white bull lying in the foreground.

Source: The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford


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Brahma's vehicle, the swan (represented as a crane) is in the bottom right. Looks like saarus crane to me.