The painting depicting within a mountainous landscape and surrounded by roiling flames and gilt, a pair of dancing Citipati - the Keepers of the Charnel Ground, with unusually animated faces, one holding a danda, or skeleton club and kepala - the matter filled skull cup, while the other holding a flower and a bhumpa. Their throne of red surmounts diminutive figures of wrathful deities, each appearing in an aureole of bursting flames and standing upon trampled wretches.