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In stone and bronze · 3 tellings · contested

The silent teacher under the banyan

Shiva sits under a banyan tree facing south, one foot on the dwarf of ignorance.

Dakshinamurthy, Shiva, Matsyendranath, Parvati

North India Pan-India South India