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品名（中）	莎维德丽
品名（英）	Savitri
入馆年号	2021年，2021.211
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1878 - 公元 1883
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 16 1/8 × 21 英寸 (41 × 53.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	传说中的Savitri公主体现了理想妻子对丈夫福利的无私奉献的婆罗门教愿景。《摩诃婆罗多》中首次记载，萨维特里拒绝了许多王室追求者，决定嫁给贫穷的森林居民萨蒂亚万，萨蒂亚万是一个道德高尚的人，一生致力于照顾失明的父母。当萨蒂亚万的健康状况不佳，死神雅玛似乎夺走了他的灵魂时，萨维特里恳求雅玛饶了他。Yama被妻子的虔诚和挑战他的勇气所打动，他实现了她的愿望，并作为一种恩惠，恢复了Satyavann父母的视力。艺术家选择了Yama给予恩惠的时刻来代表这个故事。萨蒂亚万仰卧的身影躺在萨维特里身边，在森林深处等待死亡。Savitri举起双手向强大的存在祈祷，那就是Yama，他戴着王冠，穿着深红色的长袍，挥舞着镶有珠宝的金色狼牙棒（gada），降落在翻腾的白云上，在他的力量中闪闪发光。一群幽灵般的死人在他身后焦急地等待着执行他的命令。在Savitri身后的阴影中，是他们收集的木柴，像木炭地上的骨头一样破碎不堪。这一幕的戏剧性值得从上演的《李尔王》中欣赏一下。
介绍（英）	The legendary princess Savitri embodies the Brahmanical vision of the ideal wife’s unstinting devotion to the welfare of her husband. It is first told in the Mahabhatata that Savitri, rejecting many royal suitors, resolves to marry the poor forest dweller Satyavann, a man of high moral virtue, who has devoted his life to caring for his blind parents. When Satyavann’s health fails and Yama, god of death appears to take his soul, Savitri pleads with Yama to spare him. Yama is so moved by the wife’ piety—and her courage in challenging him—that he grants her wish, and as a boon, restores Satyavann’s parents’ eyesight as well. The artist has chosen the moment of boon granting by Yama to represent this story. The supine figure of Satyavann lies at Savitri’s side, deep in the forest awaiting death. Savitri’s hands are raised in supplication to the mighty presence that is Yama, crowned and clad in a crimson robe and wielding a bejeweled golden mace (gada) as he descends on billowing white clouds, radiant in his power. A horde of the ghostly dead wait impatiently behind him to do his bidding. In the shadows behind Savitri is the firewood they had gathered, broken and mangled like bones on a charnel ground. The theatricality of the scene is worthy of a moment from a staged production of King Lear.