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Woven cotton wall hanging of Goddess Mahakali, from a Company painting, hung on a white gallery wall. The blue-black goddess, with ten heads under one crown and ten arms, stands on a green hill before a great red disc, framed by colorful fringed edges.
Close-up of the weave on the Mahakali wall hanging, showing her row of blue-black heads under a gold crown with a small crescent moon, set against the red disc. The cotton threads are red, blue-black, gold and pink, with the top fringe and a white wall beyond.
The Mahakali wall hanging hung high on an olive-green living-room wall above a record console, with plants and warm lamp light.
The Mahakali wall hanging on a cream wall above a light oak sideboard, beside an armchair and a woven stool that show its size.

N° 013

Goddess Mahakali

$79 – $139

Wall hanging | 100% cotton

Count her heads. There are ten, with ten feet below them. A meditation verse describes the goddess just this way.

The verse is said before the first episode of the Devi Mahatmya, a Sanskrit scripture of the Goddess still recited at Navratri. It pictures Mahakali with ten faces and ten feet, three eyes and the shine of a blue gem, and names the ten things her hands hold, from a sword to a conch shell.

More about this work

Sizes

  • Small Wall Hanging52 × 37 in · 132 × 94 cm · Small wall$79
  • Classic Wall Hanging60 × 50 in · 152 × 127 cm · Medium wall$99
  • Grand Wall Hanging80 × 60 in · 203 × 152 cm · Large wall$139

Offered as a wall hanging only. Please hang it with care and respect.

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The work
Title
Goddess Mahakali
Maker
Unknown artist
Genre
Company painting (the museum’s classification)
Date
Not recorded
Place
Not recorded
Medium
Painting. No size is recorded.
Subject
Mahakali, the Great Kali, with ten heads, ten arms and ten legs, standing on a green hill before a great red disc
Related text
The meditation verse on Mahakali said before the first episode of the Devi Mahatmya
Held by
National Museum, New Delhi (76.674). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Museum, New Delhi.
Rights
Public domain (PD-Art, as marked on Wikimedia Commons). Image source: a high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Mark 1.0.

Maha-Kali means Great Kali. The museum that holds this painting calls her a popular deity of Bengal and notes that the prefix Maha stresses her sovereignty over time, or kala. It catalogues the work as Company painting, a name for work by Indian artists in the 18th and 19th centuries, many of whom painted for European patrons. The record names no artist and gives no date or place.

The Devi Mahatmya is part of the Markandeya Purana. It is generally dated to 400–600 CE and has 700 verses in 13 chapters. In recitation, the meditation verse on Mahakali comes before its first episode. The verse also recalls that Brahma praised her while Vishnu slept.

In that episode, Vishnu lies asleep on the cosmic ocean, held in yogic sleep by the Goddess. Two demons, Madhu and Kaitabha, threaten Brahma. He praises the Goddess and asks her to release Vishnu. She does, and Vishnu fights the demons for five thousand years. Then the demons, proud of their strength and deluded by the Goddess, offer him a boon. He asks for their deaths.

“Lord Hari fought with them for five thousand years.”

Devi Mahatmya, chapter 1, on Vishnu and the demons Madhu and Kaitabha, in Swami Sivananda’s English translation

Details
  • Woven wall hanging, 100% cotton, with colorful fringed edges
  • Three sizes: 52 × 37 in (132 × 94 cm), 60 × 50 in (152 × 127 cm), 80 × 60 in (203 × 152 cm)
  • Size tolerance ±2.5 in (about 6 cm)
  • Made to hang on a wall (hanging hardware not included)
  • Woven threads soften fine linework; colors and texture differ slightly from the screen image
  • Catalogue N° 013 · The Noha Studio

A note on this work: Mahakali is a living goddess, worshiped by millions. This piece is offered as a wall hanging, to be hung with care and respect. Please don’t use it as a floor, beach or picnic blanket.

Care
  • Machine wash cold, max 30°C / 86°F
  • Gentle cycle, mild detergent
  • Non-chlorine bleach only if needed
  • Tumble dry low
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In the weave

Ten heads share a single crown, five turned to the left and five to the right. A crescent moon sits at the center of the crown.Detail of the weave

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The original work is in the public domain.