invertebrates

[jkirk]

Looking with a magnifier, the little orange object in the river
has a tiny man-like being rising out of it and two humanoid legs
below it--as though the conch was an integral part of the being.

Best,
Joanna Kirkpatrick
Bennington College, retd. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
Stefan Baums
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:57 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: invertebrates

Dear Valerie et al.,

> The conch-demon is S'ankhaasura ... depicted in painted sets of

> Avataras from the 18th-19th century, but I haven't got an
example to hand.

here is an example from the University of Virginia Art Museum
(second image from the top):

 
http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/collections_NEW/the_collections
/Asian/India.html

Unfortunately rather small, and I'm not sure I see the conch,
unless it is the orange object floating in the river in the
bottom left of the painting.

All best,
Stefan

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Stefan Baums
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington