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Prajapati (Brahma as Lord of Living Creatures).
Date
850 to 899
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height 46 centimetres, width 31.3 centimetres
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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.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.00162
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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