Visual depiction of Skanda in his Buddhist monastery guardian form

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Skanda in his Buddhist monastery guardian form

a youthful armored general riding a peacock

guarding the temple walls with his spear against all spiritual enemies

Organization: Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period: varies
Location: varies

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.