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Durga and Kali Approach the Gathered Armies of Chanda and Munda: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya

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Graphite and ink on paper pricked for transfer, 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: Durga and Kali Approach the Gathered Armies of Chanda and Munda: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya
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Graphite and ink on paper pricked for transfer, India (Himachal Pradesh Guler).

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