Tara (Mahavidya)

Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 53. Tara, holding a skull cup, two swords and a lotus, stands on Śiva.

Two cremation fires burn in the background. Kali is usually associated with this pose, however the two goddesses are virtually indistinguishable.

In the Shaivism and Shaktism tradition of Hinduism, the goddess Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, Tārā) is the second of the ten Mahavidyas. She is considered a form of Adishakti, the tantric manifestation of Parvati.