女神塔拉 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	女神塔拉
品名（英）	Goddess Tara
入馆年号	2021年，2021.196
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1870 - 公元 1895
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 15 7/8 × 11 7/8 英寸 (40.3 × 30.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个非凡的形象具有女神卡利的所有装饰，但被命名为马哈维迪亚度母，是超然智慧的化身，引导奉献者获得救赎（moksha），在旅途中保护他们。她也被崇拜为神圣能量的来源，包括太阳的力量。从图像上讲，她与卡莉的区别在于她的深蓝色肤色和肿胀的胃表明她怀孕了。在其他方面，他们有很多共同点，都是四臂，挥舞着两把屠刀，戴着断人头的花环，大步踏在湿婆俯伏的身体上。然而，与卡莉不同的是，她的另一只手里拿着白莲花和骷髅帽（卡帕拉）。虽然卡利喜欢沙内尔地面，但塔拉被描绘在郁郁葱葱的森林山区。她凌乱的头发上戴着头骨和上升的眼镜蛇的花环，以及她光芒四射的雨云中的银色新月，强调了她对湿婆的亲密忠诚。
介绍（英）	This remarkable image has all the trappings of the goddess Kali but is named as the mahavidya Tara, a personification of the transcendent wisdom who guides devotees to salvation (moksha), protecting them on their journey. She is also worshipped as the source of divine energy including the power of the sun. Iconographically she is distinguished from Kali was her dark blue complexion and a swelling stomach indicating her pregnant state. In other respects, they share much, both being four-armed and wielding two butchering blades, wearing a garland of severed human heads and striding on the prostrate body of Shiva. However, unlike Kali she displays a white lotus and a skull cap (kapala) in her other hands. While Kali favors charnel grounds, Tara is depicted here in lushly forested mountain terrain. A garland of skulls and rising cobra atop her disheveled hair, together with a silver crescent month in her radiant nimbus, underscore her close allegiance to Shiva.