Shiva, the Hindu deity, seated in the lotus position on a deerskin. Gouache painting.

Shiva's hair is fastened in a top knot and his forehead is decorated with a crescent moon, a red dot and three horizontal yellow lines; he wears a saffron skirt and three strands of beads around his neck; he holds a string of beads in his right hand; a silver stream flows from his hair and under the deerskin to form the river Ganges