Shiva's Family-Tantric Painting (#2521/2)
Gouache on board
Mongul School/Tantric
Circa 1820
15.25 cm x 24.75 / 6.00” x 9.75”

EXHIBITED:
Lycoming College Gallery; Williamsport Pennsylvania, 1981

DESCRIPTION:
Shiva seated on a tiger skin with heavily robed , multi- armed Parvati behind him playfully closing the eyes of his heads with her hands. Their elephant headed son Ganesh is seated on Shiva’s lap. On Shiva’s body are the Tantric - Yoga -Asana symbols assumed before mediation. Recumbent, on grass, in the foreground are their vehicles; Shiva’s Nadi bull and Parvati’s tiger. Shiva and Parvati are seated against a symbolic Mount Kailasa . In the background are pavilions and a rising mound of grass set in the light of a waning day.