Opaque water color painting of Shiva’s attendant Adhikara Nandi, a youthful figure with a bull’s head.

He holds some of Shiva’s attributes: in his upper right hand he carries the damaru (hourglass shaped drum) and in his upper left the mriga (gazelle), while his lower right hand is in abhaya and the lower left in varada mudra. A tripundra (three horizontal lines) is drawn on his forehead.

This painting is from Thanjavur (Tamilnadu, India).