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Four-armed Kali is depicted standing on a prostrate Shiva. The deity is shown with her third eye and she is garlanded. The hair of the goddess has been let loose and there is a halo behind her tiara-adorned head. She is holding in her upper left hand a <i>kharga</i>, the sacrificial axe and in her lower left hand she is holding a severed head of an <i>Asur</i>, a demon. The deity is supposed to hold other two arms in <i>abhoy-mudra</i> and <i>baroda-mudra,</i> but the painter has not shown the correct postures. Around her waist the goddess is wearing a skirt made up of severed arms of slained A<i>sur</i>s. A crow or a magpie is seen licking dripping blood from the <i>Asur</i>'s severed neck. 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