Hindu god Vishnu as a boar avatar, Varaha, third incarnation. Lord Vishnu with flowers and jewelry, face of a boar, to kill Hiranyaksha. Troisieme incarnation de Vichenou en Sanglier. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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