panel (ritual & belief: representations)

Carved wooden panel from a Juggernaut car, depicting Vishnu mounted on Garuda, with Garuda kneeling on a crocodile, from whose mouth issues an elephant. Vishnu carries a conch (shanka) in his left upper hand and a wheel (chakra) in the upper right. The lower left hand has a palm facing out, pointing downwards (varada mudra); the lower right hand has the palm facing out and pointing upwards (abhaya mudra). To either side of the Vishnu figure are three wing-like projections. There is an inscription in an Indian script on the reverse, which appears to read 'Jagannath', according to Dagmar Pospisilova.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
376
Date
before 1899
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 357 mm x 215 mm x 85 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
World Gallery > World Gallery Balcony > Horniman's Vision
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