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Goddess Chinnmasta with Attendants This is Goddess Kālī in the form of Chinnmasta. 'She is eternal night, depicted as a naked goddess holding in one hand a blood-stained knife and in the other her own severed head, the mouth of which drinks the blood gushing from her decapitated body. Two more streams of blood gush from her headless body into the mouths of two nude girls, which symbolize the distribution of her life energy into the universe.' Margaret and James Stutley, A Dictionary of Hinduism. |
