This fabric painting depicts the four-headed and twelve-armed Paramasukha Chakrasamvara (“who has integrated the wheel of bliss”), together with his female companion Vajravarahi (“diamond sow”), recognizable by the boar head on her right side of the head. The two-part Newari inscription gives the dating. Below is the patron deity Mahakala, on the left we see a priest with a companion and on the right five donors.
Details
- Title : Paramasukha Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi
- Year : 1718
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : Colour on fabric
- Dimension : Height x width: max .: 151.5 x 50.5 cm ; Image size: 65.00 x 50.00 cm ; Weight: <2 kg
- Accession No : Identification number. I 10114
- Country/ Geo-location : NEPAL
- Collection : Pergamon Museum
- Collection : Museum of Asian Art South, Southeast and Central Asia
- Photo : Museum for Asian Art of the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Photographer: Iris Papadopoulos