The Brahmanical Triad: Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu

India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 237

In a uniquely Kashmiri visualization, all three deities are represented in three-faced form: Brahma with three heads manifest and a fourth assumed; Shiva with his wrathful and feminine aspects projecting left and right; and Vishnu with his lion and boar avatars. Brahma is attended by a goose (hamsa), Shiva by his calf bull Vrsabha, and Vishnu by his purusas, the personifications of his weapons.

The Brahmanical Triad: Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, Stone, India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)

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