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A Dasavatara panel with a difference

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Wooden seeder
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Anantasai
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Yoga Lakshminarasimha
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Manjushri (An Esoteric Manifestation)
Yoga Lakshminarasimha
Veerabhadra (Ganga Jamuna)
Saraswati
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Sakti Ganapati
Venugopala (seated)
What is new?
Vamana (Possibly)
Shiva Parvathi group
Jain Altarpiece
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Kali (Bhadrakali)
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Panca-Paramesthis (Five Supreme ones)
Mahaganapathi
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Vaishnavi (Odisha)
A male deity
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Sayana Ramar
Durga as Mardhini
Lakshmi Narasimha
Kannappa Nayanar
Ganesha (Folk/Tribal)
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Uma Maheshwara (Pala)
Uma Maheshwara (Himachal)
Madurai Veeran (A folk hero)
Bhairava (Possibly)
Sudarshana (With Yoga Narasimha)
Really?…..Do your own research.
Bull with a devotee
Seated Vishnu Triad (Kerala)
Art of Indian Bronzes – Past and Future
Ganesha – Two-armed (Is it?)
Crawling Krishna
Vishnu (Stone sculpture)
Mohra (Himachal Pradesh)
Gods on a goblet – But why?
Rajamannar
Chandikesvara
Dwarapala
Vatapatrasai Vs Santana Gopala
A Thirthankara (Stone)
Khandobha and his consorts
A tale of two Annapurnas
Lakshmi – The Goddess of Wealth
Vamana – An avatar of Vishnu
Dancing Krishna
Manuscript cover (Nepal)
Ganesha, Ganesha, Ganesha..
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Ambika (Jain faith)
Parvathi as a Tapasvini
Kaliyamardaka
Dakshinamurthy
Is it a fake or a reproduction?
Navneetha Krishna
An ascetic (Kulasekhara Alwar?)
Ved Vyasa
Mother Goddess (unknown)
Sitarama
Surya (South India)
Ganesha
Mahishasuramardhini (Mardhini)
Surya or Suryanarayana
Pancatirtha (Jain Faith).
Mardhini (Karnataka)
Lakshman
Vishnu – Under a Naga
Dancing Krishna
Veera Anjaneya
Shiva and his family
Rama
Khandobha
Vishnu triad (Karnataka)
Balarama
Shiva (Gujarat)
Sambandar
Shatrughna
Ardhanari
Mahalakshmi (Kolhapur)
Venugopala
Tara
Bhadrakali
Vishnu triad (Karnataka)
Mardhini
Harihara
Bhairava
Santana Gopala
Varahi
Ananthasai
Mardhini
Dancing Krishna – Chennai Museum
Ganesha (Gujarat)
Veerabhadra
Goddess – Unidentified
Mohra (Devatas)
Anklet (From Bhuta Kola / Theyyam)
Saptamatrika
Meenakshi
Theyyam (Dancer)
Garuda (Kneeling)
Ganesha
Aranyani (Goddess of forests)
Surya (South Indian)
Matsyendranatha
Andal
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Ram Darbar – A reproduction
Revanta
Sitarama (Ganga Jamuna)
Ganesha (Dagadusheth Halwai)
Lakshminarayana (Ganga Jamuna)
Lakshminarasimha
Surya (Armband)
Lakshminarayana (Himachal)
On cleaning Indian bronzes
Suryanarayana
Vithoba with his consorts
Tribal, Folk and Nagara bronzes (1)
Umamaheshwara
Nammalvar
Anantasai
Rama – Ganga Jamuna (Gujarat)
Kannadi Bimbam (Mirror deity)
Rama – Folk (Andhra?)
A syncretic Goddess
Rama (Ganga Jamuna)
Lakshminarasimha
Shiva and his family
Astabhuja Bhairava
Parasurama
Venugopala
Ganesha (Kerala)
Lakshminarayana
Lakshmi Hayagriva
Surya with consort
Spotting fakes – A simple check
Yoga Narasimha – In print.
Ugra Lakshminarasimha
Dancing Ganesha
It is funny, but nice.
Dakshinamurthy (Folk)
An oil lamp from Kerala, it is a treasure
Bhairavi
Ganesha, riding lions.
Veenadhara Dakshinamurthy
Yogapatta – Seen through bronzes
Nataraja
Eleven avatars of Vishnu – From Sringeri
Durga Arm Band
Tripurantaka – A masterpiece: Sringeri (2)
Ganesha – Pala
Mariamman
Mohra – Himachal Pradesh
Yoga Rama

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