Addorsed Maheshvara负责人 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Addorsed Maheshvara负责人
品名（英）	Head of Addorsed Maheshvara
入馆年号	2014年，2014.687
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 450 - 公元 650
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	高 5 1/8 英寸 (13 厘米); 宽 5 1/4 英寸 (13.3 厘米); 深 3 1/4 英寸 (8.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个描绘湿婆的雕塑完全是一个更复杂和深奥的宗教偶像。马赫什瓦拉的头代表湿婆，头发辫子拉成扇形的顶结，再次在琴座上显示新月，额头上显示第三只眼睛。然而，湿婆以一种很少被代表的形式，肩膀上扛着一个蹲着的侏儒般的人物，一个加纳，咧嘴笑着，眼睛盯着天空，仿佛在他的奉献中欣喜若狂，也许在歌唱赞美他的主。湿婆展现了经典的 5-6 世纪晚期古普塔特征：圆润的肉质脸、层叠的头发和大圆形耳塞。虽然不完全清楚，但他似乎每只手都拿着一个圆盘和一个新月，大概是为了代表太阳符号。背面是一张怪诞的脸——湿婆的狂野和早期形式，有时被认定为Rudra（"咆哮者"）。这种深奥的湿婆形式很少被发现，仅限于第一个千年中期;在拉贾斯坦邦的Rang Mahal遗址发现了一个站立的湿婆石雕，蹲着加纳跨在他的肩膀上，该地区在7世纪与东北地区有着密切的联系。
介绍（英）	This sculpture depicting Shiva is altogether a more complex and esoteric religious icon. The Head of Addorsed Maheshvara represents Shiva, with braids of hair drawn up into a fanned topknot, again displaying a crescent moon on the chignon and the third eye on the forehead. However, in a rarely represented form, Shiva bears on his shoulders a squatting dwarf-like personage, a gana, grinning wide-mouthed, eyes focused skyward, as if ecstatic in his devotion, perhaps engaged in singing in praise of his Lord. Shiva displays classic 5th–6th century late Gupta features: a rounded fleshy face, cascading locks of hair and large circular earplugs. Though not entirely clear, he appears to hold in each hand a disc and a crescent, presumably intended to represent solar symbols. On the reverse is a grotesque face—a wild and early form of Shiva sometimes identified as Rudra (‘the howler’). This esoteric form of Shiva is rarely found and is confined to the mid–first millennium; a stone sculpture of a standing Shiva with squatting gana astride his shoulders has been identified at the Rang Mahal site in Rajasthan, a region with strong links with the northeast regions in the 7th century.