The Development of Hindu Iconography c19.s6.26

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c19.s6.26

¹ Instances are not unknown where Mahāyāna or Vajrayāna goddess concepts seem to have influenced the iconography of some goddesses belonging to Hindu pantheon. Tārā, a great object of veneration in the Hindu Tantras, appears to have been a direct borrowal from Buddhism. Vajrayogini's iconographic traits clearly remind us of the Tāntric goddess Chinnamastā held in great veneration by the Śāktas of Bengal (Chinnamastā was one of the ten Mahāvidyās

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