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SECTION 4.4
Erotic Sculpture and Assam :
Sharing these greater Indian socio-cultural
supplement with probable addition subtraction here and there, it
is interesting to observe that the erotic sculptures available to the
religious shrines in Assam, are not so acute and concentric in
nature as we observed in Khajoraho, Konark etc places. But,
fortunately at Madan-Kamdeva, for the first time, we have found a
continuous recess of erotic embellishment of significant varieties
which are quite uncommon to any other religious shrines in Assam.
From the time immemorial, Kamrupa (one of the
ancient name of Assam along with Pragjyotishpur) is better known
to Hindu India as a land of magic and witchcraft with its famous tantric
shrines of Kamakhya. For centuries, this tract of land remained
primitive and it was known as the strong hold of different Kirata
groups. The kiratas are being identified in Periplus of Erythraen
Sea as the race of a man who had the flattened nose and are
51 52
50 savage in nature. The Kalika Purana also describe them as the
yellow skinned men, strong, ferocious and addicted to meat and
drink. 53
This indirectly proved the Mongolian predominancy in
Kamrupa. However, it is now confirmed that along with the.
Mongolian stoke, divergent non Aryan racial elements like Negritos,
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53.
Kakati, B.K. : Mother Goddess Kamakhya, 1989, p.1.
Kir膩tairblivi ca basita岣�
K.P. 38/96.
Schoff W.H.(tr.): The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, 1912,p.47.
Rukmastanibh膩nstatra Kir膩tan J帽膩nabajjitan
Anartha mu峁囜笉it膩n madyam膩nssnai katyapar膩na
K.P. 38/96.