Goddess Siddhalakshmi

Cleveland Museum of Art

Goddess Siddhalakshmi

Date
1000s
Medium
bronze
Culture
India, Kashmir
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
150998

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This specific goddess with five heads and ten arms is described in Hindu ritual handbooks from Kashmir. She is white in color and "rests on a lotus and Shiva." Her left hands hold, from top to bottom: an elephant goad, manuscript, noose (broken), the gift-giving gesture, and a hatchet. In her right hands are a sword, trident, skull staff, skull cup, and the gesture of protection. These objects reveal the awe-inspiring extent of her knowledge, skill, and power to defeat enemies on behalf of her devotees. In tantric texts, this goddess is described as white.

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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
Pan Asia Collection | 1982: (Robert H. Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1982–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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