A South Indian painting now at the V&amp;A Museum, United Kingdom, as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16827/brahma-painting-unknown/">Item IM.418-1923</a>
<ul><li>The painting shows Brahma – a 4-headed deity of Hinduism, with Saraswati in his lap, riding on his vahana called <i>hamsa</i>. It is depicted a more goose-like mythical bird with flowery tail. It wears jewelry just like Brahma and Saraswati. In the north India Kashmir- and Punjab-area tradition, the pre-19th century paintings show a white swan-like bird.</li></ul><ul><li>This is a photograph of a 2D artwork created c. 1825 CE, and therefore wikimedia commons' PD-Art guidelines apply. Any rights I have as a photographer, I herewith donate to public domain (CC0 1,0) through wikimedia commons.</li></ul>
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Sarah_Welch" title="User:Ms Sarah Welch">Ms Sarah Welch</a>
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