Indian Sculpture c8.308

c8.308

The intensity of the face, with a thirstily attracting mouth, and eyes which draw into their slits all that the mouth thirsts for, makes this image truly, and not only iconographically, one of Kālī. The yantra-like linear composition is brought about by the triangles of arms and torso pointing downward, and corresponding triangles pointing upward, i.e. from knees to point of flame halo, and from the two upper hands to the same point.