Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting threshing counter Of course I could not

Of course I could not resist this wonderful face--I am certain there is a deep soul in there

right down to his slightly off center belly button

as they were clearly meant to be together forever

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holding up what looks less like a candle than a flourescent light bulb turned on the vertical

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting threshing counter Of course I could notI think really nothing beats the color of opaque watercolors used for manuscript paintings like this, just out of this world, and with gold and silver leaf incorporated here too. The subject here is the Hindu deity Vishnu, protector and preserver of the universe, here incarnate as Varaha, with a boar's head and four armed human body (conch shell in one hand, Sudarshana chakra in another, trampling the demon Hiranyaksha as he rescues the Earth. Seems