A black stone stele depicting Sadashiva, Eastern India, Pala period, 11th - 12th century | 東印度 拉帕王朝十一至十二世紀 黑石雕薩達希瓦坐像

German private collection, acquired in the early 1970's.

Sotheby's New York, 24th March 2010, lot 27.

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德國私人收藏，得於1970年代初

紐約蘇富比，2010年3月24日，編號27

Vasundhara Filliozat, 101 paroles de Sarana choisies par Prabhushankar, Agamat, 2011.

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Vasundhara Filliozat，《Prabhushankar之一百零一句皈依之語》，Agamat， 2011年

The cosmic ithyphallic form of Shiva with five heads and ten arms, holding a spear, a vajradanda and khatvanga in the outstretched right hands, a serpent, a damaru and lotus in the left, his principal right hand in abhaya mudra and the left holding a rosary, the lowered right hand in varada mudra and the left holding a myrobalan, seated in meditation posture on a lotus flower supported on a lion throne, with apsaras flying above and a kirtimukha mask at the apex.

Compare the composition and style of a very similar mid to late eleventh or twelfth century Sadashiva stele from Jaminkari Tapar, Dinajpur District, Bengal, see Susan L. Huntington, The Pāla-Sena Schools of Sculpture, Leiden, 1984, pl. 235