VAJRA YOGINI

DISTEMPER ON CLOTH

CIRCA 19TH CENTURY

IMAGE 16.25” x 24.5”

SILK BROCADE 24.25’ x 48.25”

EXHIBITED:

Ithaca College Museum of Art Ithaca, New York, Spring 1971 Lycoming College Williamsport, Pennsylvania 1981

DESCRIPTION: “The red central figure of Vajra Yogini is depicted dancing in pratyalidhansa on a sun disc, trampling the Hindu god Bhairava. She is surrounded by a writhing fiery aureole. The figure is holding a blood filled skull cap. Vajra Yogini is naked and adorned with five skulls in her hair. She is shown gently smiling, imbued with passion and wrath her hair loosened, laughing with bare teeth. While her usual necklace of dried skulls is missing she is adorned with a garland of fresh heads linked together with entrails.” The central figure is surrounded by a pantheon of deities.