Shiva

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by James Blake Wiener
published on 21 April 2016

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A terracotta head of Shiva. He has the matted hair of an ascetic and on his forehead is the third eye of wisdom. 400-500 CE, northern India. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

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Original image by James Blake Wiener. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 21 April 2016 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Wiener, J. B. (2016, April 21). Shiva. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/4982/

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Wiener, James B. "Shiva." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 21, 2016. https://www.ancient.eu/image/4982/.

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Wiener, James B. "Shiva." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 21 Apr 2016. Web. 07 Mar 2021.

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