玛坦吉女神 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	玛坦吉女神
品名（英）	Goddess Matangi
入馆年号	2021年，2021.325.4
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Sasadhar Banarjee【印度人】
创作年份	公元 1865 - 公元 1895
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 15 5/8 × 11 3/4 英寸 (39.7 × 29.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅版画描绘了密宗女神十位马哈维迪亚之一的玛塔基。她被理解为印度教神圣之母黛维的一个方面，被认为是音乐和学习女神萨拉斯瓦蒂的密宗形式。像萨拉斯瓦蒂一样，马塔基管理着演讲、音乐、知识和艺术。她的崇拜被规定为获得超自然的力量，特别是控制自己的敌人，掌握艺术和至高无上的知识。她翠绿色的肤色将她与控制情报的水星的主神联系起来。她被描绘成一个美丽、肤色黝黑的年轻女子，留着长而未束缚的波浪卷发，坐在狮子脚的五角形宝座上。她上手拿着绞索和山羊，下手拿着剑和盾牌，坐落在树木和山脉背景下的景观中。尽管她与萨拉斯瓦蒂有联系，但她也与不吉利和污染有关，这可能暗示她与崇拜她的低种姓社区和狩猎部落的祖先联系。
介绍（英）	This print depicts Matangi, one of the ten Mahavidyas, the Tantric goddesses. She is understood as an aspect of Devi, the Divine Mother of Hinduism and is considered as the Tantric form of Sarasvati, the goddess of music and learning. Like Sarasvati, Matangi governs speech, music, knowledge and the arts. Her worship is prescribed to acquire supernatural powers, especially gaining control over one’s enemies and acquiring mastery over the arts and supreme knowledge. Her emerald green complexion links her to the presiding deity of the planet Mercury, who controls intelligence. She is shown as a beautiful, dark-complexioned young woman, with long, unbound wavy hair, seated on a pentagonal throne with lion-feet. She holds a noose and a goad in her upper hands and a sword and a shield in her lower hands, and is situated in a landscape setting amidst trees and with a backdrop of mountains. Despite her association with Sarasvati, she is also associated with inauspiciousness and pollution which likely alludes to her ancestral connections to low-caste communities and hunting tribes, who worship her.