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    from an album of eighty-two paintings of Hindu deities. Four-armed Subrahmanya stands in samabhanga on a low pedestal, with his vahana (conveyance), the peacock, behind him.

   Painted in Tamil Nadu

   Circa 1850

   The British Museum

    

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