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The Head-offering to the Goddess in Pallava Sculpture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

J. Ph. Vogel
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The remarkable group of five rock-cut temples at Māmallapuram or Māvalivaram, to the south of Madras, has often been described. Popular imagination has associated these wonderful shrines with the Pāṇḍvas; thus it has happened that the one which is smallest in size has become known as the rath of Draupadi. Evidently this temple was in reality dedicated to some form of the goddess Durga, whose effigy, standing on the severed head of the Buffalodemon, is found carved upon the outer wall, whereas her vehicle in the form of a well-conceived but unfinished lion-statue may be seen at no great distance.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1931 , pp. 539 - 543
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1931

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