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B A head (25 x 20 mm) with curly hair, dot like eyes and a depression indicating the mouth.
A Feminine head (25 x 20 x 15 mm) dorsoventrally compressed with ear rings round eyes and slit like mouth. Flat Bottomed Figure of a standing man, It is very crude and a strange looking sculpture. Made
of black stone of the size of 40 x 21 x 12 mm. Lajja Gauri :
The genesis of worship of the mother goddess can be traced to the hoary past. In wide perspective of time and space, right from upper Paleolithic period she has been represented both by iconic and an iconic forms focusing on divergent trends of her manifestation. The one in which she is shown nude with emphasized pudenda and breasts is known as lajja gauri. In this form of the sculpture the posture is highly flexed, the torso bears well developed breasts and the legs stretched apart so as to display the pudenda prominently. It may or may not have a head. This peculiar form began to appear from second cent. BC to twelfth/thirtieth
cent AD.105
I have found three sculptures of Lajja gauri from my site. It is a relif sculpture in black stone of 80 x 75 mm sized square 10 mm plate. The mother goddess holds a lotus flower in her right hand, the left hand too holds some thing but it is not visible as the sculpture is damaged at the left upper and lower corner. A vague figure of some bird or animal is seen sitting close to the left knee. This Lajja Gauri is similar to others found from different sites in Gujarat. A Black Stone head of Lajja Gauri.(33 x 25 x12 mm) with a turban like head gear, large eyes. Red stone sculpture of Lajja Gauri. (41 x 46 x12 mm) Again with the similar turban like headgear and large eyes she holds an object in her left hand. The lower half of the sculpture is missing. This is a relif sculpture.(41 x 46 x 12 mm).
Green colored stone relif sculpture showing two persons. 5 Ganesh statue of sand stone(52 x 37 x 24 mm). It is a relif sculpture.
Porcelain Sculptures: Three porcelain human figures are found. All the three have marked western influence and dressing style.
103 Indian Archeology 1970-71 A Review 104 Dr. V.H. Sonavne, monogram on lajja gauri 105 Dr. V.H.Sonavane, monogram on lajja gauri
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