Parvati or Uma, as she is addressed in Tamil Nadu, is the consort of Shiva and always portrayed as a slender and voluptuous young woman. The great goddess is associated with fertility, love and devotion. In fact in Tamil poetry of the bhakti saints Uma’s exquisite beauty is lauded through metaphors of the beauties found in nature. Her right hand is raised in katakahastamudra and probably originally holding a lotus flower while the other rests gracefully at her side. She wears a simple diaphanous, though long, sari secured with a belt and is heavily bejewelled. For another early Vijayanagara period Uma example see, P. Pal, ‘Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum’, vol. 1, Art from the Indian Subcontinent, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003, pl. 170 D.
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AN IMPORTANT BRONZE FIGURE OF UMA
SOUTH INDIA, VIJAYANAGARA PERIOD, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
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