A THANGKA DEPICTING GUHYASADHANA HAYAGRIVA CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the wrathful protector at center with three heads, six arms and eight legs, standing in alidhasana on a bed of serpents, holding a khadga in the primary right hand and a pasha in the primary left hand, holding a khatvanga in the secondary right hand and a tomara in the secondary left hand, holding a vajra in the tertiary right hand and the tertiary left hand in tarjani mudra, with three identifying horse heads emerging from the crown of the head, surrounded by a multitude of fierce black beasts, the wrathful offerings of the six senses below the central figure, with three wrathful protectors in roiling lakes of blood in the lower register, framed in a textile mount

Parrish Art Museum, acquired before 1971. 

Wear, creasing, accretion and some losses to pigment throughout, with scattered areas of water staining. Framed in a textile mount.
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