Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.77

c8.s2.77

There is another specimen in the collection of the Sāhitya Parishad at Dacca which is almost similar to the one described above. In this case the presence of a prostrate male with an elephant's head on the pedestal seems to indicate that this is a figure of Parnaśabarī, but she does not correspond to the eight-armed figure referred to on page 24 of Mr. Bhattacharyya's book¹. The weapons held in the eight hands are mostly broken but we can still distinguish the sword and the trident in the right hands and the noose and the thunderbolt in the left hands.²