Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.333

v3.c43.t1.333

On the left, in advance of the main temple, is one about thirty feet high, containing an image of Ashtabhuji Mata, or the ‘eight-armed mother’; but here the pious Muslim has robbed the goddess of all her arms, save that with which she grasps her shield, and has also removed her head. She treads firmly on the centaur, Maheswar,¹ whose dissevered head lies at some distance in the area, while the lion of the Hindu Cybele [706] still retains his grasp of his quarters. The Joginis and Apsarases, or ‘maids of war’ of Rajput martial poetry, have been spared.