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Yoga Narasimha, Vishnu's Man-Lion Incarnation
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Copper alloy, Chola period (880–1279), India (Tamil Nadu)
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Samuel Eilenberg Collection Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg 1998
Title: Yoga Narasimha, Vishnu's Man-Lion Incarnation
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Copper alloy, Chola period (880–1279), India (Tamil Nadu).
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