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# Figure

Vishnu, four armed recling and asleep under the coil of Sesha (here represented as a five-headed water-snake) with his consort Lakshmi seated watching at his feet. Sesha's heads are raised as a canopy over shadowing Vishnu. A heavily cast, unsophisticated example of a relatively rare subject in metal.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1300–1500 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-30-1914](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-30-1914) · Pramāṇa
