id: 150996 accession number: 1982.45 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.45 updated: 2022-01-04 16:56:56.307000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, 9th-10th Century technique: schist department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1982 opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Pan Asia Collection date: footnotes: citations: Pan Asia Collection date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall 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, four-armed, calm but powerful, slays him with her sword. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1982." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3-55. page number: Reproduced: p. 26, no. 100 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.45/1982.45_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.45/1982.45_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.45/1982.45_full.tif