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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
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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