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A monumental scroll painting depicting Chakrapurusha, Western India, 19th century | 西印度十九世紀 毗濕奴神輪 設色布本

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Property from a Belgian Private Collection

A monumental scroll painting depicting Chakrapurusha

Western India, 19th century


gouache on cloth, depicting the complete diagram of the subtle body with celestial upper chakras and nadis, stemming from the cosmic ocean below, with the multi-headed serpent Ananta supporting a reclining Vishnu, with Brahma above and a column of chakras, mandalas and mythical animals, and the Thousand-petalled Flower at the apex: a second depiction of the cosmic ocean in a panel above with Ananta supporting Chakrapurusha: and the topmost panel depicting the abstract subtle body with palaces at the apex: and panels of text running the length of the scroll to the right

Height 304.5 cm, 119⅞ in.

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Collection particulière belge

Grande peinture montée sur rouleau représentant Chakrapurusha, gouache sur tissu, Inde de l'Ouest, XIXe siècle

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西印度十九世紀 毗濕奴神輪 設色布本

Jean Claude Ciancimino, London.

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Jean Claude Ciancimino,倫敦

Tantra, Hayward Gallery, London, 30th September - 14th November 1971.

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Philip Rawson, ed.,Tantra, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1971, cat. no. 366, illus., p. 199.

Philip Rawson, Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstasy, London, 1973, pl. 56.

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Philip Rawson編,《密較》,英國藝術委員會,1971年,圖版366,頁199。

Philip Rawson,《密教:印度的狂喜崇拜》,倫敦,1973年,圖版56。