查蒙达，邪恶的恐怖毁灭者 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	查蒙达，邪恶的恐怖毁灭者
品名（英）	Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil
入馆年号	1989年，1989.121
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 900 - 公元 1099
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	高 44 1/2 英寸 (113 厘米)
介绍（中）	这是一个完整雕塑的片段，以查蒙达的形式描绘了凶猛的印度教女神卡利，这个绰号来源于她斩首恶魔昌达和蒙达的行为。Chamunda体现了赤裸裸和腐朽。她的头发堆成一个发髻，上面装饰着骷髅头和新月。她皱着眉头，露出牙齿，巨大的眼球从她骨瘦如柴的脸上凹陷的眼窝里威胁性地突出。作为项链，她戴着一条蛇，蛇的线圈与锁骨下下垂的腐烂肉环相呼应。就在她瘦弱的躯干上，肚脐上方是一只蝎子，象征着疾病和死亡。据推测，她有一次丢失了十二只胳膊，手里拿着致命的东西 Chamunda全身赤裸，除了一条短而透明的三角帆船，部分覆盖着两张虎皮，头部从腰部一直垂到膝盖。尽管她的四肢不见了，但与相关图像相比，可以清楚地看出，这只查蒙达站着，双腿伸直，向右向外。这座雕塑的冷酷和毫不妥协的恐怖代表了印度神学的一个方面就像湿婆在其黑暗形态的巴拉瓦中的形象一样，这种可怕的女神形象是寺庙外墙上常见的居住者。它们既出现在供奉湿婆的神殿上，也出现在供奉女神本人的神殿上。
介绍（英）	This is a fragment of a full-length sculpture portraying the ferocious Hindu goddess Kali in the form of Chamunda, an epithet derived from her act of decapitating the demons Chanda and Munda. Chamunda embodies bareness and decay. Her hair is piled up into a chignon decorated with a tiara of skulls and a crescent moon. She scowls, baring her teeth, and enormous eyeballs protrude menacingly from sunken sockets in her skeletal face. As a necklace, she wears a snake whose coils echo the rings of decaying flesh that sag beneath her collarbone. Just above her navel on her emaciated torso is a scorpion, a symbol of sickness and death. She presumably once held lethal objects in the hands of her twelve missing arms. Chamunda is naked except for a short diaphanous dhoti partially covering the two tiger skins complete with heads that hang from her waist to her knees. Although her extremities are missing, it is clear from comparison with related images that this Chamunda stood with legs straight, the right turned outward. The starkness and uncompromising horror of this sculpture are representative of one aspect of Indian theology. Like images of Shiva in his dark form of Bhairava, such macabre images of the Goddess are common occupants of the exterior walls of temples. They appear both on shrines dedicated to Shiva and those to the Goddess herself.