[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933) › c8.167 # Indian Sculpture c8.167 Indian Sculpture c8.167 - **Language:** English ### [c8.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.167) Śiva, as other gods too, is frequently called a Yakṣa.217 Śiva as Mahāyogin makes use of his Yakṣa power. To set forth multiples of his own body is a manifestation of a power which draws upon the inexhaustible supply diffused throughout the world, but concentrated in the divinity or in the yogin for the purpose of being dismissed as a part form of his consciousness, while it is referred to and upheld by the central power.218 - [Previous: c8.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.166) - [Next: c8.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.168) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.167) · Pramāṇa