Posted on: 18 October 2015

A blue-skinned Indian goddess, holding a snake in her right hand and a man with a trident on her left elbow; she treads on another snake with her right foot, and on a lotus with her left foot
"Raksha Kali or Durga - Deity of Epdemics"
Watercolour

Credit: Wellcome Library, London


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Rakshakali

JAI KALI.MAAA......

Arjuna in a Hymn to Durgā in the Mahābhārata, * her many names are mentioned:—"Reverence be to thee, Siddha-Senāni (generaless of the Siddhas), the noble, the dweller on Mandara, Kumāri (Princess), Raksha Kāli, Kapāli, Kapilā, Krishnapingalā. Reverence to thee, Bhadrakāli; reverence to thee, Mahā Kāli, Chandi, Chandā, Tārini (deliveress), Varavarini (beautiful-coloured). O fortunate Kālyāyani, O Karāli, O Vijayā, O Jayā (victory), younger sister of the chief of cowherds (Krishna), delighting always in Mahisha's blood! O Umā, Sakambhari, thou white one, thou black o

सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके । शरण्ये त्र्यम्बके गौरि नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ ॐ जयंती मंगल काली भद्रकाली कपालिनी । दुर्गा शिवा क्षमा धात्री स्वाहा स्वधा नमोऽस्तु‍ते

Tinny Mukherjee Samiran Nandy Ritam Nandy Sourav Mukhopadhyay লৌকিক না বৈদিক ইনি?

Tantrik !!!

এক পা স্থিতিপ্রতীক পদ্মে, অন্য পায়ে গরলবিস্তারী নাগ দমিত। এক হাতে পীড়িত মানবের শুশ্রুষা, অন্য হাতে মৃত্যুসর্পকে নিবারণ । মহাকালীর এই রূপভেদ রক্ষাকালী, মারীরোধিনী, শিল্পীর কল্পনায় এই ছবি।

Jai mata di

Jai maa. Kali

Man with a trident ??doesn't that man look like Shiva ?

You have indeed made a perceptive observation. The museum description in fact mentioned that too. :)

:)

Is this dated, by chance?