A RARE CARVED PYROPHYLLITE FIGURE OF KAKASYA TIBET, 13TH / 14TH CENTURY

boldly carved in high relief with the crow-headed dakini depicted with head turned to her left and sturdily standing on a figure lying across a pendent lotus base, her arms held out on either side with a ritual weapon in each hand, the body rendered with well pronounced breasts and taut muscles, the powerful posture accentuated with a further figure depicted sprawled behind the goddess's body, all against a rounded niche, original cinnabar-red and other pigments preserved on the surface, the reverse uncarved

David Swetzoff, Washington D.C., 2010. 

As visible in the catalogue photo, and as typical of stone fragments, there are losses and bruises. The original pigments have been well preserved.
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Kakasya is a crow-headed dakini, represented in Vajrayana iconography as the guardian of the east gateway in the Pledge circle of the Chakrasamvara mandala palace. She embodies the principle of right bodily action.