Neeto Kali
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The goddess Nitya Kali with extended red tongue, her youthful face surrounded by a red halo emitting a yellow radiance, dancing on the prostrate figure of Shiva on a tiger skin rug, who grasps one of her feet whilst gazing up from his tiger skin-covered mountain abode. The four-armed goddess is painted in dark blue and framed, mandola-like, by her long black hair. She wields a butchering sword in her raised left hand and holds a severed head in her lower hand, from which a crow drinks the dripping blood. A second severed head is cast down before her. Nitya in colloquial Bengali equates to Sanskrit nritya, ‘dance’, ‘dancing’. Inscribed in Bengali and English (incorrectly transcribed as “Meeto”).
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