Indian Sculpture c8.269

c8.269

The transparency of the mood of the goddess is diffused throughout the entire image, throughout the texture of its surface and the spacing of her movement. The crudity of the base, with the buffalo and its severed head, the puppet-like demon and the grinning child-face of the lion-vāhana are negligible, were it not for the ineffective vertical axis which the craftsmen attempted to maintain with the help of the raised body of the demon. However this may be, the triumph of the goddess raises her smooth limbs to that sphere of action where the deeds of the gods are their play.