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Thursday, September 24, 2026

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The legends of Chhinnamasta emphasise her
self-sacrifice — sometimes coupled with a maternal element — sexual dominance, and self-destructive fury.
  1. The lotus beneath the couple is sometimes replaced by a cremation pyre.
  2. The coupling couple is sometimes omitted entirely. 
  3. Sometimes Shiva — the goddess's consort — is depicted lying beneath Chhinnamasta, who is seated squatting on him and copulating with him.
  4. Dogs or jackals drinking the blood sometimes appear in the scene.
  5. Sometimes Chhinnamasta is depicted standing on a lotus, a grass patch, or the ground

Attendants

Both of the attendants — Dakini to her left and Varnini to her right — are depicted nude, with matted or dishevelled hair, three-eyes, full-breasts. They wear the serpentine sacred thread and the mundamala, and carry a skull-bowl in the left hand and a knife in the right. 

  1. Sometimes, the attendants also hold severed heads (not their own). While Dakini is fair, Varnini is red-complexioned. In other depictions, both are depicted blue-grey. 
  2. Sometimes, her attendants are depicted as skeletons and drinking the dripping blood from Chhinnamasta's severed head, rather than her neck

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