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# Figure

Lower torso of a standing male figure carved in a dark green-grey sandstone. The figure wears a sacred thread (yajñopavīta) and an exquisitely detailed girdle (mekhalā). In the centre a cloth tie passes through the mouth of the tiny buckle in the shape of fierce grotesque (kīrtimukha).

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 900 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1971-1214-1](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1971-1214-1) · Pramāṇa
