Book Of KaliOne of the most unconventional yet immensely popular deities in the Hindu pantheon, goddess Kali essentially represents the dark and contrary aspects of the cosmos. Her naked form and association with violence, blood and gore challenge the very concept of divinity. Yet, over the centuries, she has come to represent a whole gamut of conflicting imagesfrom bloodthirsty ogress to benign goddess. So today while she is venerated as Chamunda, a deity who

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A large number of fishes have been nicely tattooed in the painting

6 Mukhi Rudraksha has six lines (mukhas) on its surface

singled out for glory and greatness

The beautiful brass hanging bell is nicely carved with some floral designs of a beautiful peacock

The story behind the particular scene is that there was a great lake within the river Yamuna and in that lake resided the black and poisonous serpent Kaliya

and the vertical eye on his forehead

spanning centuries from Sankara the earliest

the carrier of Vishnu and the last one Kudroo created the hydras

He then broke one of his tusks and continued writing

One of the most important deities both for the Hindus and Tibetans