A Silk Embroidery Depicting Panjarnatha Mahakala, Tibet, circa 15th Century

Property of the Bothwell Family Collection

A Silk Embroidery Depicting Panjarnatha Mahakala

Tibet, circa 15th Century

25½ by 19 in. (64.8 by 48.3 cm)

the deity at center holding his principal attributes of the kartrika, kapala and ghandi stick, standing on a prostrate figure, wearing a tiger skin around his waist and a garland of severed heads, a skull crown engulfed in flames crowns his head, Brahmanarupa Mahakala below to the right blowing a deer horn trumpet, with Vajradhara seated at the top flanked by a garuda and phoenix

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13704.