A sculpture of eight-armed ‘Durga Mahishasuramadini’, holding weapons, slaying the demon Mahisasura, emerging out of buffalo.

The sculpture dates back to 10th-11th Century CE from the hills of Almora, Uttarakhand & was repatriated from USA in 2018.

This is a real beauty and one of its kind.

source: Archaeological Survey of India

Durga who rides on the tiger inside her

Now takes the place of that heavy-breasted mother

Made for pregnancy alone. For Durga’s no Sheila-Na-Gig.

You don’t get into her easily. An ace at Sanam Takraw,

Her thighs will break an assassin’s neck like a match-stick.

Put together from the parts of warriors, is she all violent fathers

In a daughter’s clothing? One consumed by loathing

For her sex’s “frailty”? Durga dealt with the gaur goon

Who did a deal with Brahma. Being denied eternal life

His yesmanship for the god gained him the right to be slain

Only by a woman – which he reckoned guaranteed

An everlasting fame, given the gaur-sleek size of his frame.

Then Durga took his fancy, and she told him she would only mate

With a chap who could beat her in combat. Not with a sap.

That sounded good to this pumped-up buffalo anti-god.

Bring it on, he bawled, erection already affecting his cock.

Riding on her tiger she engaged with him, this minotaur

Who changed into a lion Durga despatched with a rock

As he became an elephant whose trunk she tied in a knot,

And when he was out of shapes into which to shift she slew him,

Tore off his head with her teeth, disconcerting all who knew him. 

Extract from The Runiad, Book 1