The cosmic lotus Mahakala and the Ten Sikh Gurus
1839
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Google Arts & Culture — the-cosmic-lotus-mahakala-and-the-ten-sikh-gurus-unknown/YAFxS0cCL4vhdw
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This is one of the folios of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, it is a visual representation of the text written in the Guru Granth Sahib. The painting represents the Universe, divided into twelve petals of a lotus representing twelve zodiac divisions. Ten of these petals are illustrated with the Ten Sikh Gurus and the other two are their origin [ Kashyapa and his Solar dynasty ]. The central circle of the lotus has Sodhi Bhan Singh, the patron, who got this manuscript prepared and he can be see worshipping Mahakala and Mahakali.
