Durga दुर्गा | Queen of the South on Her Lion Throne | Aluminium Print

दुर्गा | In the old Tanjore manner, grandchild, the goddess sits in full majesty so that we may stand before her as her children. Here is Durga on her lion — the great cat couchant beneath her like a footstool of gold, her many hands holding the weapons the gods gave her, her crown a small palace. The jewelled frame burns with rubies and emeralds. The colour of her sari is the colour of long evenings on the river. Stand before this. The Mother of the world is also a queen, and queens know how to hold the room.