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品名（中）	女神Bhairavi
品名（英）	Goddess Bhairavi
入馆年号	2021年，2021.190
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Shib Gobin Lal
创作年份	公元 1870 - 公元 1880
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 英寸 (29.2 × 23.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	Bhairavi女神是印度教最高女神Devi的十种表现形式Mahavidya之一，也是湿婆的一种愤怒形式Bhairava的女性形象的体现。湿婆的新月出现在她的额头上，构成了第三只眼睛，为了识别她与巴拉瓦的特殊关系，她戴着一个由人类头部切割而成的长花环，这些人的脸上表现出一系列善意的表情。女神坐在一个低矮的宝座上，背部有尖，支撑着一把敬称的阳伞。所有这些都设置在一个露台上，以柱廊为背景，柱廊上有棘叶柱头、镶嵌或彩绘装饰和厚重的金色流苏窗帘。在各个方面，巴拉维都拥有统治者的装备。她的神圣权威因她单腿并拢坐在膝盖上而得到进一步强调，这是为最高级别的人保留的皇家放松姿势。王座和露台的设置与这幅图像的制作是现代的，也是孟加拉室内设计的代表，该设计将许多欧洲建筑元素融入了19世纪后期加尔各答的宫殿建筑中。
介绍（英）	The goddess Bhairavi is one of the Mahavidya, the ten manifestations of Devi, the supreme goddess of Hinduism, as well as embodying the female aspect of Bhairava, a wrathful form of Shiva. Shiva’s crescent moon appears on her forehead framing a third eye and in recognition of her specifically Bhairava affiliation, she wears a long garland of severed humans heads whose faces display a range of benign expressions. The goddess is enthroned on a low throne with cusped back that supports an honorific parasol. All is set on a terrace with a colonnade backdrop with acanthus-leaf capitals and inlaid or painted décor and heavy gold-fringed drapes in the manner of the day. In all respects Bhairavi is presented with the accoutrements of a ruler. Her divine authority is further emphasized by her sitting with one leg drawn up and resting on the knee, a posture of royal ease reserved for those of the highest rank. The throne and terrace setting are contemporary with the making of this image and representative of Bengali interior design which adapted numerous European architectural elements into the palace architecture of later nineteenth-century Calcutta.