A painted folio in opaque watercolour on paper, showing the goddess Tripurasundari (Lalita Tripurasundari), part of a wider series of paintings depicting the Mahavidya goddesses in the Rajput painting tradition. The image shows her standard devotional iconography, of the kind reproduced across Hindu devotional art and worship in public temple settings; it is not a diagram of the Sri Chakra or any depiction of initiatory Shri Vidya ritual, which this atlas treats as belonging to the restricted tradition and does not describe. The folio was acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art through purchase and partial gift from the collectors Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim, noted scholars and collectors of Indian painting.
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Current LocationNational Museum of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1 Current CustodianNational Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution 1 Custody HistoryFormerly in the collection of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim; acquired by the National Museum of Asian Art through purchase and partial gift. 1 Physical Form
MediumOpaque watercolour on paper 1 Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightSourced to the subject's own accountThis atlas describes and cites the folio rather than reproducing an image of it, and describes the goddess's public devotional form only, not any Shri Vidya initiatory content. 2 Subject Matter
Depicted SubjectThe goddess Tripurasundari (Lalita Tripurasundari) in standard devotional iconography, a public form rather than an initiatory diagram. 1 Origins
CountryIndia (origin); United States (current location) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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