Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c10.s2.1.4
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c10.s2.1.4
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c10.s2.1.4
It is to be noted that this Goddess worshipped as the Great Mother from the oldest times was venerated throughout the country from Taxila to Orissa and by the followers of Buddhism, Jainism and Brāhmanism. Her popular origin is hinted at in several ways, i. e. by her identity with the Earth, and by her birth from the waters on the one hand and from heaps of cow-dung on the other (*Karishiṇī*).