Saturday, March 24, 2012

Patan Durbar square 5





This was another interesting one. Apparently, this had to do with some demon who was given invulnerability, so he could not be harmed by a man or a beast, on the earth or in the air, and plenty of other stipulations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiranyakashipu). So he's killed by something that is neither one thing or another, on his lap (which I guess is neither in the air or on the earth) with fingernails (which are not really weapons, I guess). Anyway, it's an interesting gory story I think.

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