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Manonmanī(?), the goddess of love, is four-armed and three-eyed. Strange to say, her hair-dress is said to be the matted hair (*jaṭā*) of an ascetic. Two of her hands are in the attitude of assuming protection (*abhaya*) and of granting a boon (*vara*). In each of the two other hands she holds a lotus flower. Her complexion is pink (red white, *śveta-rakta*) or dark blue (*śyāma*). It appears that this *Śakti* also is reckoned as belonging to the retinue of Śiva, in whose temple she is worshipped.