Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn sculpture. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn sculpture. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Thứ Hai, 10 tháng 8, 2015

Vaikuntha Vishnu at Masroor

I am back, after two whole weeks offline! It has been rather difficult to get back to writing, with so many thoughts churning inside my head, but, making a monumental effort, here I am, continuing with the last place I wrote about before I left – the Masroor Rock Cut Temples.



We saw this image at Masroor, and neither the guide, nor friends I asked after I returned, had any clue as to who it was. The figure looks male, but what about the side faces? Those were definitely not human! I had seen something similar in a Vishwaroopa figure of Vishnu, but that one had many more faces. Besides, who were those two at the bottom he had his hands on?

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