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Chakrapurusha

Chakrapurusha is the personification of the disc (chakra), the characteristic emblem of Vishnu.

While North Indian art he is represented simply by a disc in hand or the back of the head chakra, in the South Indian art is portrayed in a very elaborate.

This bronze Chakrapurusha has many arms holding various attributes of Vishnu on the wheel that surrounds his body.

Ref: "The gods of India" - 4000 years of sculpture in bronze

No 62. page 79

Show Pitti Palace (Florence) 1993

ALC (Free Circulation)