Bhuvanesvari/Bagala
Not on view
The left print, which is labeled Bhuvanesvari, shows the fourth of the ten Mahavidya goddesses seated on a couch. In her left hand she holds an elephant goad and a cord. Bhuveneshvari is the supreme goddess who is credited with all creation and with destroying evils in the world.
The print to the right shows a goddess that is labeled as Bagala, again one of the ten Mahavidyas goddesses. She is presented pulling the tongue of a sword-wielding green figure with one hand, and with the other she strikes him with a club, symbolizing her destruction of a devotee’s misconceptions and delusions. Following iconographic conventions she has a golden complexion, a yellow dress, and sits on a corpse. This goddess is associated with duality and opposites: speech into silence, power into impotence, defeat into victory and so on.
