Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.588

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**Kālī or Rudrāṇī as the Power of Death.** Devī, in the *tāmasic* form of Kālī, four-armed, three-eyed, aged and terrible, has slain a king, whose garments are laid on the river's bank, and while she devours the last fragments of his flesh, she pours the water of purification on the bones; jackals are seeking for what may be left from the feast. In the middle distance there is seen a Śaiva shrine containing a Liṅgam.