A gouache painting on paper, one folio of an album of eighty-two paintings of Hindu deities held by the British Museum. It shows the sage Patanjali, recognizable by his serpent's tail, kneeling before a linga shaded by a tree and throwing flowers on it from a basket with his right hand, an act of devotion consistent with Patanjali's traditional identification as a partial incarnation of the serpent Shesha or Ananta. Held today by the British Museum under registration number 1993,0806.0.55.
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MediumGouache painting, album of eighty-two paintings of Hindu deities, British Museum 1993,0806.0.55 1 Medium (class) Connections
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Source The Sage Patanjali Venerating a Linga, registration 1993,0806.0.55 (British Museum)
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The British Museum's own cataloguing sentence for this painting names the subject outright, "the sage Patanjali," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
Source The Sage Patanjali Venerating a Linga, registration 1993,0806.0.55 (British Museum)
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1. The Sage Patanjali Venerating a Linga, registration 1993,0806.0.55 (British Museum)
British Museum- registration 1993,0806.0.55
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A gouache painting on paper, one folio of an album of eighty-two paintings of Hindu deities held by the British Museum.
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