Batuka Bhairava, Vijay Nagar School, 13th century CE, Benaras Hindu University Museum.
Form of Shiva
Batuka Bhairava (Sanskrit: बटुकभैरव, romanized: Baṭukabhairava) or Vatuka Bhairava is a fierce form of Shiva in Hindu iconography, associated with his manifestation of Bhairava. This form of Shiva is depicted as a fierce, nude youth,[1] usually accompanied with a dog in the Tantric tradition.[2][3]
^Balfour, Edward (1885). The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific ... B. Quaritch. p. 299.
^Stutley, Margaret (2019-04-09). The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography. Routledge. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-429-62425-4.
^Kusuman, K. K. (1990). A Panorama of Indian Culture: Professor A. Sreedhara Menon Felicitation Volume. Mittal Publications. p. 115. ISBN 978-81-7099-214-1.
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