The idol, originally, included goddess Lakshmi sitting on Narasimha’s lap but the statue of Lakshmi was destroyed in a raid in 1565. Today you can only see goddess Lakshmi’s hand resting on ...

A Gupta-era Narasimha statue, found broken 150 years ago in Eran town, Bhopal, has been restored and erected by the Archaeological Survey of India. Unique for its smiling rather than aggressive ...