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Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c11.28

Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c11.28

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v1.c11.28

It is said that when Vishnu gave up his boar-form and returned as Vishnu, to his own heavenly abode known as Vaikuntha, Śiva took the long tusk of the discarded animal-body and used it as an ornament.