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for her persona is manipulated from flesh eating Brāhmaṇa deity to vegetarian one, in an abrupt transition to showcase the domination of the Jaina religion, and the ease of element of expediency subjected to the women. Yet it possibly could also be the Jaina mode of deity appropriation? But beyond the larger debate of religious politics, the remnants of the gender politics are visible beyond doubt, in the sculptural transactions and thus in the manifestations of making of the feminine.
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