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Agastya
Keywords : Agastya
| Type of artwork | Sculpture |
|---|---|
| Village | National Museum |
| Province/City | Jakarta |
| State | Western Java |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : -6.176944 Long : 106.821944 |
| History of production | - |
|---|---|
| Art | Agastya wears a crown with bands of Pala style, an askewed cloth and a bow-tied belt of southern India style. |
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | Mid Central Javanese Art |
| Age | 13-15 centuries BE. |
| Religion | Brahmanism-Hinduism |
| Sect | Shaivite |
| Religion and belief | Agastya is a disguise of Shiva. He is a teachers of hermits and brings knowledge from the north to the south of India. Therefore, he is highly revered. The fact that many Agastya sculptures are found in Java art shows that hinduism in Java island might have originated from India. |
| Related artwork | This sculputre wears a crown like Shiva. He has beard and corpulent stomatche which is a hermit’s iconography in India. There are people kneeling on both sides. They are assumed to be followers of the hermit. |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
|---|---|
| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2015-07-00 |
| Record creator | Chedha Tingsanchali |
