[INDOLOGY] Sculptures (from Assam) that I'd like to identify

Mon Jun 28 14:42:57 UTC 2021

Here the second image.

Paolo

Il giorno lun 28 giu 2021 alle ore 16:42 Paolo Eugenio Rosati <
paoloe.rosati at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Dear Shaman,
>
> thanks for pointing out this.
>
> I attached other two picture.
>
> I hypothesised the picture (6476) represents the goddess Sarvatomukhi (who
> is sculpted also on the torana (6315) placed at the enter of the
> complex---that is around 1-2 kms away from the temple complex) but I am not
> sure at all.
>
> Best,
> Paolo
>
> Il giorno dom 27 giu 2021 alle ore 15:13 Shaman Hatley via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> ha scritto:
>
>> Dear Paolo,
>>
>> These look to me like images of ritualized instruction of a sacred text,
>> probably a tantra/āgama; the object on the ground between the ascetic on
>> the left (presumably the teacher/ācārya) and figures on the right appears
>> to a bookstand (called a yogapīṭha in chapter 1 of the Piṅgalāmata). One
>> chapter of Jinah Kim’s new book *Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra and a
>> Material History of Indian Painting *(UC Press) illustrates several
>> examples of these (I don’t have the book at hand, but the relevant pages
>> should be easy to locate).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Shaman
>> ---
>> Shaman Hatley (he, him, his)
>> Chair, Department of Asian Studies
>> Associate Professor of Asian Studies & Religious Studies
>> University of Massachusetts Boston
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2021, at 6:01 AM, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> EXTERNAL SENDER
>> I attached a similar image from the same site.
>>
>> Best,
>> Paolo
>>
>> Il giorno dom 27 giu 2021 alle ore 12:00 Paolo Eugenio Rosati <
>> paoloe.rosati at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Dear Indologists,
>>>
>>> during my fieldwork in Baihata Chariali (Assam) I took some pictures
>>> that I would like to identify (I attached one in this email). The scenes
>>> were probably sculpted within the iconographic programme of a temple
>>> complex belonging to the XII century. The site is not scientifically
>>> preserved and the remains of all the temples were messed up.
>>>
>>> Any idea will be apreciated!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Paolo E. Rosati*
>>>
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>
> *PhD in Asian and African Studies*
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