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(on right) have also been carved. All these images are now deposited in the Reserve Collection of the State Museum, Lucknow (Acc. No. 1 798, J 853, 0.334). The images from Bateśvara ( 798) also contains in it parikara the figures of two-armed goddesses showing abhaya-mudra and kalaśa. The throne-frame animals, lay devotees and flying mālādharas are also carved. Ambikā, wearing dhammilla and the usual ornaments, is shown in a graceful manner.
The Mālādevi temple (10th century A.D.) at Gyārasapur (Vidishā, M.P.) has two figures of Ambikā, on its northern and southern śikharas. In both these intances the two-armed Ambikā, endowed with foliages of mango tree overhead, rides a lion and holds ämralumbi and child. Likewise, her images (10th-11th century A.D.) from Siron (Fig. 39)
39 Siron (Lalitpur, U.P.), 10th century
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