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品名（中）	Dhumavati女神
品名（英）	Goddess Dhumavati
入馆年号	2021年，2021.198
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1875 - 公元 1885
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 15 7/8 × 12 英寸 (40.3 × 30.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这是描绘十大智慧女神玛哈维迪亚的系列作品之一。每一个都是密宗印度教超验智慧的化身。这是Dhumavati女神，字面意思是"烟雾缭绕的女神"，与不吉利的事情联系在一起，包括雨季的四个月（Chaturmas），不应该举行吉祥的庆祝活动。她被召唤来将奉献者从生活的麻烦中拯救出来，或者帮助击败自己的敌人。在这里，她被描绘成一个年老的寡妇，头发蓬乱、蓬乱，穿着为寡妇保留的简单白色纱丽，白色在印度教文化中是一种不祥的颜色。她拿着一个用竹编成的托盘，这些竹编和她年迈的体格是她的主要特征。她通常骑着一只黑乌鸦作为她的交通工具（vahana），但在这里，她的乌鸦落在了她乘坐的寺庙游行车的炮塔上。三叉戟（trisula）的装饰表明了它与湿婆的教派关系，在微风中飘扬的粉红色三角旗也是如此。多层圆顶寺庙模型类似于中世纪后期的孟加拉砖砌寺庙建筑。虽然Dhumavati的自然栖息地是火葬场，但她和她的乌鸦在这里被描绘成郁郁葱葱的森林景观，上面盘旋着季风翻滚的灰色云层。
介绍（英）	This is one of a series depicting the ten wisdom goddesses, Mahavidya. Each is a personification of an aspect of transcendent wisdom in tantric Hinduism. Here is the goddess Dhumavati, literally "the smoky one," associated with things inauspicious, including the four months of the rainy season (Chaturmas) when no auspicious celebrations should be held. She is invoked to rescue devotees from life’s troubles or to aid in the defeat of one’s enemies. Here she is presented as an aged widow with disheveled, unbound, white hair and wearing the simple white sari reserved for widows, white being an inauspicious color in Hindu culture. She holds a winnowing tray of woven bamboo that, along with her aged physique, are her principal identifiers. She typically rides a black crow as her vehicle (vahana), but here her crows have alighted on the turrets of temple processional car on which she rides. Trident (trisula) finials indicate its sectarian affiliation to Shiva, as do the pink pennants that flutter in the breeze. The multi-storied domed temple model resembles later medieval Bengali brick temple architecture. While Dhumavati’s natural habitat is the cremation ground, she is here depicted with her crows in a lushly forested landscape above which hover the billowing grey clouds of the monsoon.