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Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c26.85

Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c26.85

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v4.c26.85

The photograph reproduced on Pl. CXXIV is that of a piece of sculpture belonging to one of the rock temples at Ellora. The central figure, Subrahmanya, has four arms and a single face. The front right hand which is broken seems to have held the *śakti*, whose head is visible near the figures of a Dēva and his Dēvi sculptured on the upper left corner. The back right hand rests upon the hip;