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Kali Presenting the Heads of Chanda and Munda to Durga: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya (Glory of the Goddess)

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Graphite and ink on paper, India (Himachal Pradesh Guler)
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase The Research Institute of the Scripps Clinic Gift in honor of Lita Annenberg Hazen and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift 1995
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Title: Kali Presenting the Heads of Chanda and Munda to Durga: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya (Glory of the Goddess)
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Graphite and ink on paper, India (Himachal Pradesh Guler).

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