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# Varaha

The four armed avatar stands with the body of a human but the head of boar. He wears an ornamented headdress which encircles the front half of his head and he has a floral garland and necklace round his neck together with bangles, anklets and a sacred thread looped across his body.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1775–1793 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.585-is](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.585-is) · Pramāṇa
