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Height: 109.220 cm
Purchased with the assistance of the Brooke Sewell Fund
Asia OA 1961.4-10.1
Room 33: Asia
Granite figure of Dakshinamurti
From Tamil Nadu, southern India
Chola dynasty, late 10th century AD
Shiva as the ascetic teacher
T. R. Blurton, Hindu art (London, The British Museum Press, 1992)
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