The Hindu god
Shiva
portrayed
in Thai style with an
urna on his forehead, four arms and holding an ax and a
trihsoon
or trident with a
bando,
hourglass-shaped drum that represents creation.
On his forehead
he wears a
tri-pundra,
i.e. a
pundra,
a kind of sectarian mark or
tilaka,
that
consists of
three horizontal lines.
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