Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase a great heel

a great heel

along with his wife

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

aqua and plum

but even better is the fact that the "I" and the "W" are out of order

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase a great heelI 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