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  • wood carving wood art nepal buddha wood carving wood art temple patan makara elephants lotus leaves
  • wood carving wood art nepal buddha wood carving wood art temple patan makara elephants lotus leaves
  • wood carving wood art nepal buddha wood carving wood art temple patan makara elephants lotus leaves
  • wood carving wood art nepal buddha wood carving wood art temple patan makara elephants lotus leaves

Makara Hindu wood carving art Nepal temple art wood art

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Makara wood carving art Nepal temple art wood art

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Makara

Fragment of a tympanum above one of the windows of the Ratnesvara temple on Sulima Square in Patan, 13th century. The makara, an aquatic hybrid creature with the scaled body and mouth of a crocodile and the trunk of an elephant, spits lotus leaves as a symbolic representation of water. 

symbolic representation of water, as well as a warrior. The abundant lotus tendrils 

The tail, richly decorated with lotus tendrils, reinforces the motif of water as a life-giving element.

Larger than the original, 25 cm x 62 cm, 2018     

4.5 kg

IP-005

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Holz