LOT 143 An illustration to a dashavatara series: Narasimha Avatar, Vishnu in his incarnation as the man-lion disembowelling the demon Hiranyakashipu Mandi, circa 1810-1820
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242 x 301 mm.
An illustration to a dashavatara series: Narasimha Avatar, Vishnu in his incarnation as the man-lion disembowelling the demon Hiranyakashipu Mandi, circa 1810-1820
gouache and gold on paper, blue and gold inner floral border, stippled light pink outer border, numbered 64 verso, cover sheet with eight lines of takri text and the stamp of the Royal Library of Mandi 242 x 301 mm.
|ProvenanceFormerly in the Royal Collection, Mandi.Vishnu took on this avatar in order to defeat the demon Hiranyakashipu who could not be killed by man nor beast, inside or outside, or by day or night. He terrorised the earth and threatened all devotees of Vishnu, including his own son Prahlada. The pious Prahlada told his father that Vishnu is omnipresent, to which Hiranyakashipu demanded to know if Vishnu was even within a nearby pillar: he struck the pillar with his sword and broke it. Vishnu leaped out of the broken pillar out in the form of a man-lion, killing the demon at dusk on the threshold of the palace, ridding the earth of the demon and acting as his devotee's protector.Lot numbers 141-144 are all from the same dashavatara series depicting the ten avatars of Vishnu.
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