source: Ethnoarte Siddhapratima Yantra This distinctive image is know as a “Siddhapratima Yant
source: Ethnoarte Siddhapratima Yantra This distinctive image is know as a “Siddhapratima Yantra” which literally means a magical diagram depicting a perfect being. A Siddha, a liberated soul who has trascended corporeal form and its resultant Karmic obbligation, is represented in this type of image as a bodiless silhouette. Western India.XIX-XX century. -- source link