<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e788fecb-548f-469b-a907-4b3c9966a5e7/AD6DF48D-3D99-401E-8905-CBB88668ED34/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.asia.si.edu/devi/fulldevi/deviCat11.htm" href="http://www.asia.si.edu/devi/fulldevi/deviCat11.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.asia.si.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.asia.si.edu/devi/fulldevi/deviCat11.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.asia.si.edu/img/7799AFFE-CA64-4954-9D75-3701EF4ED842" alt="Chamunda" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.asia.si.edu/devi/fulldevi/deviCat11.htm"><FONT size="2" class="TEN"><I>Chamunda</I><BR />Nepal, 14th century. Copper, gemstones, traces of pigment, and gilt. Lent by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, General Acquisitions Fund.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.asia.si.edu/devi/fulldevi/deviCat11.htm"><FONT size="2" class="TEN"> This tiny Nepalese Devi, in her terrifying cosmic form as Chamunda, is one of the most arresting, macabre, and imaginative of images; it is both iconographically complex and technically demanding. With a trio of human skulls as her seat and a cadaver as her footrest, the emaciated form of Chamunda is richly adorned with conventional ornaments as well as a stupendous garland of severed heads suspended by their hair.<BR />A bear's skin is tied over Chamunda's clinging skirt, with its head and legs dangling beside her buttocks. She wears the skin of an elephant as a cape and grasps two of the animal's feet in her uppermost hands. In her other hands she brandishes an array of weapons and awe-inspiring objects. Devi manifested herself as this menacing form to combat the powerful demon generals Chanda and Munda, whom she slayed after a fierce battle </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AD6DF48D-3D99-401E-8905-CBB88668ED34/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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