South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c10.223

c10.223

In the image illustrated here the deer and tanka (axe) of the upper hands are missing. The lower right hand indicates the barada mudrā in a manner different from all images familiar to us in the North. The mudrā delineated in the lower left hand, though not suggested in the verse quoted, is evidently the alingana mudrā—the posture of embrace. This is confirmed by another text too much mutilated to be quoted here which says Devyālingita bāmahasta i.e. embracing the goddess by His left hand.