Samundra Man Singh Shrestha
Kaumari With Chanda Bhairava
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This magnificent oil painting by Samundra Man Singh Shrestha took five months to paint. It was completed in 2006, and is Samundra's most ambitious composition to date. The painting depicts the four-armed mother goddess Kaumari, as she offers a skull-cup of blood from a freshly sacrificed buffalo to...
Sathya Sai Baba
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For some people it may seem strange to include this portrait of India's most famous, and now somewhat controversial, miracle-working guru in the Hindu Deity gallery of this website. But for countless Hindus of India and Nepal, Sathya Sai Baba has long been recognized as a living embodiment of the...
Heads of Bhairava and Kaumari
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This oil portrait was painted by Samundra Man Singh Shrestha in 2008, and depicts the two-armed aspects of the mother-goddess Kaumari and her consort, Chanda Bhairava. The assemblies of the 'eight mothers' (astamatrika) and the 'eight Bhairavas' (astabhairava) are of great importance in the Newar...
Chinnamasta
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This magnificent painting by Samundra depicts Chinnamasta, the 'severed headed' yogini, who traditionally appears as the third of the ten mahavidya or 'Great Knowledge-holding' goddesses in the Hindu shakta-tantra traditions. Collectively the ten mahavidya represent the...
Standing Manjushri
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This oil painting was made by Samundra Man Singh Shrestha in 2004, and depicts the standing form of Manjushri, the bodhisattva of Wisdom. In triple-bend posture Manjushri stands gracefully upon the seed-head of a pink lotus that arises from a lake. Wisps of early morning mist arise from the surface...
Wooden Mask of Bhairava
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This intricate composition depicting the 'Wooden Mask of Akasha Bhairava' was painted for me by Samundra in 2008, and is based upon an earlier black-and-white composition of the Mask of Bhairava by Gyankar Bajracharya, which also appears in this gallery. But while Gyankar's two-dimensional version...
Mahalakshmi and Matrikas
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Within a sombre landscape of the five elements, Mahalaskmi, the 'Great Auspicious' matrika or 'mother goddess' stands gracefully in tribhanga or 'triple bend' posture upon the golden seed-head of an ornate pink lotus-throne. She is golden-yellow in complexion, with three eyes, four...
Mahavidya Bagalamukhi
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Bagalamukhi, the 'Crane-headed One', appears as the eighth of the ten mahavidya goddesses, and she is also known by the names of Bagala (the crane): Pitambara-devi (the yellow-clad goddess): Bakamukhi (heron-faced), and as Vagla or Vagalamukhi. Her legend relates how an asura demon...
