ABSTRACT
The prime proposition is that the goddesses are immensely beautiful objects as they evoke multiple emotions by their horrific and delightful visual and verbal images. This means, at times, the conventional understanding of beauty underscores woman if the woman looks horrific, and at the same time, in the myths and arts the horrific becomes a beautiful deity for a devotee or a viewer. From both India and Nepal, the stone carving of Shalabhanjika and some academically well-known images present further views on the beauty of woman and goddess. Shalabhanjika image in Indian and Nepali stone sculptures represents the nature and woman in erotic terms. Shalabhanjika artistic tradition relates beauty of a woman with bodily shape, arousal and fertility. If the terror and sublime structure the painting of Samvara and Vajravarahi, the paubha painting of Avalokiteshvara and four Taras has imagistic concept of beauty.
