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painting

1919,0101,0.166

ink and colours on paper

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Title

Prajapati (Brahma as Lord of Living Creatures).

Date

850 to 899

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 46 centimetres, width 31.3 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Description

Scope and content : Paper painting showing divinity riding on phoenix and carrying child; unhaloed; perhaps Brahman as Giver of Life. Companion paintings, forming series of Indian divinities, found in Ch. xvii. 002, 003; xxii. 0033, 0034.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.00162

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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