A Saivite is a follower of the Hindu god Shiva. This individual is holding Shiva's main attributes, i.e. a trident or trisula with a bando (fig.), a hourglass-shaped drum that represents creation, and the hooded snake, that Shiva displays over his shoulder (fig.) and which represents a brahman cord (fig.). On his forehead this devotee wears a pundra, a sectarian mark, but this is not a tri-pundra (fig.), the kind usually worn by Saivites and consisting of three horizontal lines (fig.).