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# Figure

Figure of a Dakini, carved in ebony wood and gilt. In tantric dancing attitude, holding the gri-gug, Kapala and Khatvanga (missing). She wears a garland of severed human heads, and crown, earrings, necklace, girdle and bracelets. In her forehead is the third eye. An aura of flames forms a backpiece.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-381-1914](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-381-1914) · Pramāṇa
