Four-headed image of Vishṇu.
Description
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Informations
Colour: —
Vehicle: ?
Āsana: ?
Faces: Four
Hands: Twenty
Objects in hands/Symbols: Wheel, sword, pestle, goad, paṭṭā, mudgara sword, noose, spear, śūla, arrow; conch, bow, mace, noose, tomara, plough, battle-axe, staff, churi (knife) and shield1 (AGP)2
Hand pose: —
Hair dress: —
Consort: —
Miscellaneous: Four heads
Variations: Eagle vehicle; twenty hands: banner, plough, conch, thunderbolt, goad, arrow, wheel, mahālunga, vara, yoga; banner, staff, noose, mace, sword, blue lotus, horn, pestle, flower-garland, and yoga mudrā3 (RP & RM)
- wheel = chakra, sword = khadga, pestle = musala, goad = aṅkuśa, noose = pāśa, arrow = bāṇa, conch = śaṅkha, bow = shārnga/dhanus, mace = gadā, plough = hala, battle-axe = paraśu, staff = daṇḍa, shield = kheṭaka ↩
- For abbreviations in brackets, see list of abbreviations ↩
- banner = dhvaja, thunderbolt = vajra, lotus= padma, horn = śriṅga ↩
- Gupte, R. S., Iconography of the Hindus Buddhists and Jains, 1972, p. 83 ↩
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