Pediment narrates Mahishasuramardani at Po Nagar

Site common name	Po Nagar
Type of artwork	Sculpture
Province/City	Nha Trang
State	Khanh Hoa
Country	Vietnam
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 12.265 Long : 109.195556

History of production	Po Nagar enshrines Pakawati icon, a disguise of Uma, is the goddess of the southern Champa. The Prasat was built in dedication to Pakawati in Hua Lai period, but was destroyed by Khmer in the 15th century BE. The new Prasat was built again in the early Bin Din Period, which is the current Po Nagar.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	The early Bin Din
Age	The late 15th century – the early 16 century BE.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism
Sect	Sakti
Religion and belief	Turaka conquered a buffalo beast called Mahishasuramardani. It is the disguise showing that she is superior to ignorance, which is represented by a buffalo. The buffalo was granted the wish from Bhraman that it could not be defeated or killed by the male gods. All of the male gods had to extract their power to destroy this buffalo. All of the power became Turaka.
Related artwork	Turaka is dancing above a buffalo beast. There are two other people playing music for her. It should be noted that the gentle move of this Mahishasuramardani is different from the ferocious expression of the same scene in India.

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-06-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali