ABSTRACT

Ten yoginī sculptures that are now scattered among museums across Europe and North America (see Figures 8.1–8.5), and an eleventh figure that remains in India, shared a home in Kanchipuram in the tenth century. Many things interest me about these sculptures, among them how and why they travelled, how they worked together in their tenth-century home and how they now work separately in their new homes, and the shared physical features that indicate they and eight other now-scattered figures were once part of the same yoginī temple.