{"data": {"id": 150996, "accession_number": "1982.45", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Durga Destroying the Buffalo Demon, 800s\u2013900s. Northern India, Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, 9th-10th Century. Schist; overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1982.45", "current_location": "244 Indian and Southeast Asian", "title": "Durga Destroying the Buffalo Demon", "creation_date": "800s\u2013900s", "creation_date_earliest": 800, "creation_date_latest": 1000, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Northern India, Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, 9th-10th Century"], "technique": "schist", "support_materials": [], "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art", "collection": "Indian Art", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.762, "height_inch": 30, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 309644, "title": "The Year in Review for 1982", "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).", "opening_date": "1983-01-05T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "The Pan-Asian Collection, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Robert H. Ellsworth [1929\u20132014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131982", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1982\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "She uses Shiva's trident to pin down the demon.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "IIn Hindu traditions, the goddess Durga is sometimes understood as a form of Shiva's wife Parvati, the personification of his female energies. This female creative energy, called shakti, has a powerful side that is personified as the warrior goddess Durga, capable of destroying arrogance and other mental vices, personified as the demon. Her main feat in the mythic literature is the slaying of the Buffalo Demon, Mahishasura. He had been ravaging the universe until the warrior goddess Durga decapitated him. His more vulnerable demonic form emerges from the neck, and she, calm but powerful, slays him with her sword.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60753039"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1982.45-durga-destroying-the"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Year in Review for 1982.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3-55.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 26, no. 100", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.45", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.45/1982.45_web.jpg", "width": "655", "height": "893", "filesize": "68225", "filename": "1982.45_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.45/1982.45_print.jpg", "width": "2494", "height": "3400", "filesize": "787393", "filename": "1982.45_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.45/1982.45_full.tif", "width": "5154", "height": "7024", "filesize": "108629032", "filename": "1982.45_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": "Nancy F. & Joseph P. Keithley Gallery", "athena_id": 150996, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1982-05-13T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 800, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "800s\u2013900s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": ["Durga Destroying Mahishasura"], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:47:48.332000"}}