A FIGURAL DIAGRAM OF THE HUMAN BODY'S CHAKRAS (ENERGY POINTS)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Rajasthan, North-Western India, 20th century

Opaque pigments and black and red ink on white cotton, the large vertical composition depicting a half-clad sadhu or sannyasin seated in a lotus position with his arms lifted and the palm of his hands facing outward, wearing a typical foliated headdress associated with forest dwellers, his body marked with the centres of energy known in Sanskrit as chakras, several lines of black ink Devanagari inscriptions on both sides, a red ink six-pointed star yantra diagram flanked by sacred monograms in the foreground, 100cm x 66.5cm.