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Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon

900s

Cambodia, probably Koh Ker

Medium
bronze
Measurements
Overall: 52 x 18.4 x 12.5 cm (20 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.); without tang: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1996.27
Public Domain
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Location
244 Indian and Southeast Asian
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The figure wears a head-dress, kirita-makuta, a diadem tied in the back and pointed at top.

Description

This depiction of Durga is rare and important, as it is a large-scale example of the goddess in bronze. Her conquest over the buffalo demon is indicated by its severed head at her feet. She stands four-armed and triumphant, with a wheel, conch shell, mace, and clod of earth in her hands.
Darkened green bronze sculpture of the Goddess Durga, standing facing us with four arms, a circular item in each hand save for the lower left from which hangs a roughly cylindrical pole curving in to connect with the rectangular base on which Durga stands. At the center of the base is a bull's head over which Durga, wearing a squared skirt and no top stands. She has elongated ears, smiles faintly, and wears a headdress.

Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon

900s

Cambodia, probably Koh Ker

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