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Tradition: Shakta · clear
In stone and bronze · 1 telling
Shiva under Kali's feet
Bengal's Kali stands on a corpse-like Shiva: without Shakti he is shava, a body; a Howrah folk dance plays the scene.
In stone and bronze · 1 telling · contested
The queen's tower at Sivasagar
The Ahom queen Ambika, wife of Siva Singha, has the Borpukhuri tank dug between 1731 and 1738.