Elements of Hindu Iconography v2.c16.s8.t3.9

v2.c16.s8.t3.9

[*] At some later period of the history of this temple, when the surface of the stones of which the sculptures are composed began to peel off, they have all been covered with thin coat of plaster. The plasterer not being able to make out the exact nature of some badly injured objects has shaped slightly different things in their stead: thus, a lotus flower that is required by the *āgamās* seems to have been evidently mistaken for the most likely object in the back left hand of Śiva, namely, *agni*.