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Vishnu and Lakshmi on an elephant meeting Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha on a bull while Brahma watches from heaven. -Chromolithograph. (Wellcome Library UK) Please note the faces of Vishnu's Elephant and Shiva's Bull (Nandi).

Photograph of the Trimurti sculpture of Shiva in the cave temple of Elephanta, in Maharashtra, taken by D.H. Sykes around 1871, in the illustrated book 'The Rock-Temples of Elephanta or Gharapuri'. The temple was probably commissioned by…

Rama breaks Shiva's bow in order to win the hand of Sita in front of the selection panel. Chromolithograph by R. Varma