This painting depicts Simhanada, the “Lion's Roar” emanation of Avalokiteshvara, white in colour with one face and two hands, his hair gathered in a topknot. Seated in the posture of royal ease upon a moon disc above a white lion whose head turns to the right, he has the appearance of an ascetic. His right hand extends over the knee in the gesture of granting refuge, while the left rests on the seat behind him. To his right rises a trident entwined with a white snake; to his left, above a lotus, sits a skullcup of fragrant flowers crowned by a flaming sword. A krishnasara deer skin covers his left breast, and he wears a brahmin cord and a lower garment of red silk, without further ornament — the vestments of a renunciant.
