id:			150996
accession number:	1982.45
share license status:	CC0
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Durga Destroying the Buffalo Demon, 800s-900s. 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

title:				Durga Destroying the Buffalo Demon
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creation date:			800s-900s
creation date earliest:		800
creation date latest:		1000
current location:		244 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Northern India, Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, 9th-10th Century
technique:	schist
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Pan Asia Collection
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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, four-armed, calm but powerful, slays him with her sword.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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

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