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Noopur Kumari

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Why annapurna is shown serving shiva in temple art - You Need To See This

Temple art rarely wastes a gesture. Every object a deity holds, every posture, every direction a gaze travels has been chosen from a tradition that thought carefully about what images teach. The scene of Annapurna serving Shiva is one of the most deliberate in the Hindu visual canon, and one of the most quietly radical.

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