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The Fingernail Test
The Fingernail Test is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals or Judith Leyster, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 
Painting.
The painting is also known as "Boy with a glass and a lute" and shows a young lute-player wearing a beret and a draped cloak over his chest, tilting his glass to show it is empty while facing the viewer in order to say "time is up". It was attributed
Brahma arrogantly declared that he was the Supreme Creator of the Universe. Shiva appeared at the assembly as an infinite pillar of light and challenged Brahma's statement. After deliberation, the council accepted Shiva as the true Creator, but Brahma remained obstinate. Angered by Brahma's vanity, Shiva—as the terrifying Bhairava—cut off one head of the five-headed Brahma with a mere flick of his fingernail (an act iconographically depicted as "Brahmashirascheda-murti"). As a consequence Brahma died, but the spiritual credit