Grey stone standing Harihara holding his attributes- 6969

Grey stone standing Harihara holding his attributes

Prei Khmeng period, 7th Century

Country of origin: Cambodia

Dimensions: W 36 x D 24 x Ht 114cm.

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Who is Harihara?
In Harihara imagery, Shiva is represented as the right half of the deity, his vertical third eye, lightly incised into the 
forehead, truncated at the Vishnu divide. The facial features are undifferentiated, unlike in their Indian counterparts, 
where a masculine and feminine cast is given to each half. This Harihara makes clear the extent to which the Khmer conception
differentiated the two deities only in the partition of the headdress into a combined jatamukuta-miter and in the provision of 
half of a third eye on Shiva’s side. The popularity of this hybrid deity was largely confined to the seventh century in Cambodia.