Charlotte Schmid On the First Representations of the Buffalo-slayer: Goddesses and the first Krsna-centred Cults This paper surveys the hitherto unknown links between the major Hindu goddess Mahisamardinī, She who destroys the buffalo, and the first cults devoted to Krsna. The "Buffalo-breaker" is commonly regarded as one of the consorts of Śiva and she is worshipped as such in most Shaiva temples. Her relation to Śiva is both ancient and attested to by the first texts recounting the myth of the fight against the buffalo demon, in the 6th century. But Mahisamardinī is a goddess of obscure origins, her abundant images being the only clues we have to her popularity during the first five centuries of our era. These first known images share a ...
This study about the images and the symbolism of the wild animals at ancient India is based on a rea...
Abstract: This book studies several mythical motifs, found in the Veda (especially in the Ùgveda) on...
The ancient carved wooden facade of the sanctuary, as well as the carved panels of the maṇḍapa and c...
Abstract Ancient Representations of Krsna against Kešin on Weight-stones : the Avatâra of Visnu and ...
"A sculpture of Durga has recently been acquired by the University of Missouri-Columbia, one that ex...
Les représentations des divinités féminines hindoues mises au jour au Bengale, stèles et statues de ...
The sheer intensity of the encounter between the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons in ‘Eastern India’ (co...
A group of around six hundred representations adorning six Cola, Saiva temples of the 10th century a...
In India zijn vele krijgshaftige en demonen-dodende godinnen geïntegreerd tot het concept van de 'Kr...
In India zijn vele krijgshaftige en demonen-dodende godinnen geïntegreerd tot het concept van de 'Kr...
Overall view; Representations of the goddess Durga killing the buffalo demon (Mahishasuramardini) ar...
In 1896, Alfred Foucher came across a statue on the banks of the Papaharana-Naga at Brar in Kasmir. ...
The paper presents the multifaceted identity of the Hindu goddess Mahādevī, the dynamic feminine abs...
Pallava iconography in structural temples (8th century A. D. in Tamil Nadu, South-East of India), wh...
In India zijn vele krijgshaftige en demonen-dodende godinnen geïntegreerd tot het concept van de 'Kr...
This study about the images and the symbolism of the wild animals at ancient India is based on a rea...
Abstract: This book studies several mythical motifs, found in the Veda (especially in the Ùgveda) on...
The ancient carved wooden facade of the sanctuary, as well as the carved panels of the maṇḍapa and c...
Abstract Ancient Representations of Krsna against Kešin on Weight-stones : the Avatâra of Visnu and ...
"A sculpture of Durga has recently been acquired by the University of Missouri-Columbia, one that ex...
Les représentations des divinités féminines hindoues mises au jour au Bengale, stèles et statues de ...
The sheer intensity of the encounter between the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons in ‘Eastern India’ (co...
A group of around six hundred representations adorning six Cola, Saiva temples of the 10th century a...
In India zijn vele krijgshaftige en demonen-dodende godinnen geïntegreerd tot het concept van de 'Kr...
In India zijn vele krijgshaftige en demonen-dodende godinnen geïntegreerd tot het concept van de 'Kr...
Overall view; Representations of the goddess Durga killing the buffalo demon (Mahishasuramardini) ar...
In 1896, Alfred Foucher came across a statue on the banks of the Papaharana-Naga at Brar in Kasmir. ...
The paper presents the multifaceted identity of the Hindu goddess Mahādevī, the dynamic feminine abs...
Pallava iconography in structural temples (8th century A. D. in Tamil Nadu, South-East of India), wh...
In India zijn vele krijgshaftige en demonen-dodende godinnen geïntegreerd tot het concept van de 'Kr...
This study about the images and the symbolism of the wild animals at ancient India is based on a rea...
Abstract: This book studies several mythical motifs, found in the Veda (especially in the Ùgveda) on...
The ancient carved wooden facade of the sanctuary, as well as the carved panels of the maṇḍapa and c...