Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s3.11

c8.s3.11

Originally she had only one head and two hands. Such is the Aśōkakāntā and the Ārya-Mārīchī. The abnormal forms are those with three, five and six heads; six, eight and twelve hands. The eight-armed form of Mārīchī was identified by M. Foucher in 1905¹. A specimen discovered in Nālandā and I. M. No. 6268 are exactly similar. In the case of the latter a human bust appears on the pedestal between the seven sows².