Two Shiva devotees known for extracting the poison from a scorpion's bite. Gouache drawing.

1 drawing : gouache, with gum arabic

Biragee juggernant - subbaputty - Shiven - sellers of small stones valued for their virtue in extracting poison from the bite of a scorpion. Bears number: 37

A similar painting, in watercolour and without a background, was offered for sale at Bonham's, Knightsbridge, 5 November 2014, lot 360, with inscription "The doctors of the Malabar, they come every ... to kill the ... of poisons".

Attributed to a painter from Tanjore (Thanjavur), ca. 1840

Yubraj Sharma, Spiritual energetics of homoeopathic materia medica, Wembley: Academy of light, 2006, vol. 2, p. 630

Wellcome Collection 32948i