Lord Shiva depicted with 16 arms, wearing a tiger skin, with third eye and half moon on his forehead. He wears a necklace of human heads, and holds a wheel, drum, trident, chain, snake, bowl, bell, etc. After an illustration by Coenraet Decker in Philippus Baldaeus’s Truthful and Exact Description of the Famous East India Coast of Malabar and Coromandel, Amsterdam, 1672. Ixora, Divinite des Indes Orientales. Copperplate engraving by David Herrliberguer after an illustration by Bernard Picard from Les Ceremonies Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde, Religious Ceremonies of All the Peoples o

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