Shiva Dakshinamurti

A miniature image of Shiva Dakshinamurti, rarely seen in copper alloy. The four-armed Shiva, as a mendicant guru, holds a snake and a trident in his upper hands and a manuscript in his lower left hand while the lower right hand is held in vitarka (teaching) mudra.

Kind

artefact

Date

1600–1700 CE