Image of book which is open to a page containing a colored etching of a scantly-clad ascetic with right arm elevated. His public display of this self-inflicted pain or mortification could be seen in the temples around calcutta in the 18th century. The ocher shawl suggests he is a shivaite. From solvyns’s collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings, sec. 7, pl. 10.
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