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Essay name: The Sculptures of Madan-Kamdev (Study)

Author: Kamal Nayan Patowary
Affiliation: Gauhati University / Department of History

The essay critically studies the Sculptures of Madan-Kamdev: an archaeological site in Baihata Chariali, Kamrup, Assam (India) dating back to the 9th century A.D. The site features elegant sculptures in relief and round forms which are documented in Sanskrit texts like the Kalika Purana and Yogini Tantra.

Chapter 4 - Erotic Sculptures of Madan-Kamdeva

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of our own Yogini Tantra have also reflected the popularity of Kaula
Tantra in Assam where a complete chapter being dedicated in
respect of guru and his role in the life of man.
Thus, to explain the very scene of our discussion when
we referred to its nearby sequences, on one side first there is an
woman who look to be hammered on something (due to erosion,
it is now quite difficult to identify the exact object on which she
hammered), there is another highly eroded scene of copulation
almost of Yab-Yum type. On the other side of the sequence of
guru, there is a penal, joined perpendicularly, by placing an
woman at the cornise. The penal composed of are two highly
eroded sequences, probably of divine personals of pot bellied
identities. Exposed genitalia along with weighty testicles are two
of the important features of these divine personals to look.
In its present eroded state of condition, it is now difficult
not only to confirm the exact identities of these two short statured
corpulent bodies but also to ascertain the working activities of
other corresponding sequences. Under such circumstances, no
concrete, explanation or the reason behind the existence of guru
to this architrave is possible except the scene of Yab-Yum. Yab-
Yum is an unique erotic representation, primarily concern to Tantric
Buddhism. where a couple sits in close frontal embrace. This
coitus posture being specifically prescribed for delayed ejaculation
or it is a pose served as coitus reservatus. In Buddhist Tantrism
and in some school of Hindu Tantrism (Nath and Sahajiya scct.), the semen
called bodhichitta or bija is not to be cast. The fall of semen considered as
128 128. Ibid, p.44
129. Ibid, p.77
129

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