A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s4.14

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mouth, bushy hair, and sunken eyeballs, having a crooked knife in her right hand, and reaching out the other with a bowl, as if eager to share in the gore of its [*sic*] victim; behind her head is the owl [one species is called Bhairava], the symbol of destruction, or a vampire, as fit witness of the scene. On the right, in front of the skeleton, is Pārvatī; and higher up, near the feet of the victim Ratnāsura, is a grinning face [Figure: A. Das Avatār Cave, Elūra, *cir.* 700 A.D. B. Kailās temple, Elūra, *cir.* 775 A.D. PLATE XLIV. Rescue of Mārkaṇḍeya by Śiva. (*A. S. W. I.*, vol. v, Pl. XXIV; from drawings by H. Cousens.)]