This excellent twin brass-statue in characteristic south Indian style of bronze-casting represents the four-armed Shiva with Parvati amorously poised close on his left – ‘vam’, which in Indian tradition is the place of a wife who is hence often called ‘vama’ – the woman on the left. In his upper right hand he is holding a goad, while the lower right is held in ‘abhaya’. Though cast largely independent of each other, being installed on a common pedestal and the figure of Shiva conceived as holding Parvati in his arms, the two images also reveal delightful unity.