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An illustration from a Mahlmna Stava series: Sacrifice of the eye
PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1850
Folio 19, opaque and transparent pigments on paper, Vishnu bows to Shiva on a lingam and offers eyes to him, the lingam standing on a yoni, two trees grow behind, on a pink platform with blue sky behind, within black and pink rules and broad pink-speckled borders, the protective fly-leaf with 6ll. of bold black devanagari script
8½ x 11 5/8in. (21.4 x 29.5 cm.)
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