[INDOLOGY] who is the deity on the photograph?

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

Some further options are to be allowed. Jaddhaatrii too sits on a lion.
Unless four other hands
 are hidden the six hands too are obstacles.
Best
DB

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Marina Orelskaya via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

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> From: Marina Orelskaya <m_orelskaya at yahoo.com>
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> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:20:32 -0700
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] who is the deity on the photograph?
> Dear Roelf,
>
> I would say it's Durga.
> Enlarging the photograph you can see a number of plaques among the
> offerings. They bear the canonic image of Durga sitting on her lion,
> alongside with the canonic inscriptions in Hindi: mAtA rAnI kA SR~NgAr (the
> love of the Goddess).
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> Best,
> Dr. Marina V. Orelskaya
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> (~~currently in Moscow)
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> On Mon, 9/14/15, Roelf Barkhuis <barkhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Subject: [INDOLOGY] who is the deity on the photograph?
>  To: indology at list.indology.info
>  Date: Monday, September 14, 2015, 10:34 AM
>
>  Dear INDOLOGY members,
>  Can anybody tell
>  us the name of the deity on the attached photograph, and the
>  festive occasion for which the offerings have been prepared
>  (also taking the month of the year into
>  account)?
>  The photograph
>  was taken in New Delhi, India, March 2007.
>
>  The offerings
>  include pottery with sprouted Barley (Hordeum
>  vulgare), a decorated coconut (Cocos nucifera)
>  and flowers of several plants.
>
>  Sprouting barley
>  has also been documented in Calcutta (november 2014), where
>  it is offered for sale as germinated grain and as seedlings
>  in pottery, similar to the one on the photo.
>
>  I am asking
>  this question on behalf of the author of the photograph,
>  René Cappers. He is currently preparing a book on
>  traditional agriculture practices and food
>  preparation.
>
>  With kind regards and thanks in advance for your help,
>
>  Roelf
>  Barkhuis
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>  3080936info at barkhuis.nlwww.barkhuis.nl
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