figure (ritual & belief: representations)

Figure of Durga made of brass. Her eight arms are carrying various weapons and a small figure in one of her left hands. Her right foot rests on the buffalo daemon, Mahishasura, into which a long handled weapon has impaled using one of her right hands. His head lies on the ground next to her.

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