(THE GIST OF PIB) Goat headed Yogini

(THE GIST OF PIB) Goat headed Yogini

[JANUARY-2022]

Goat headed Yogini

  • Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy announced that a 10th century stone idol of Goat Head Yogini that had been illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh is being returned to India.

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  • Earlier, the High Commission of India in London announced the recovery and repatriation of the 10th century stone idol that had been illegally removed.
  • The sculpture is of a goat headed Yogini that originally belonged to a group of stone deities in sandstone and installed in Lokhari temple.
    The sculpture had briefly surfaced in the art market in London in 1988.
  • In October last year, High Commission of India received information about the finding of a goat-headed Yogini Sculpture that had matched the description of the Lokhari set, in the garden of a private residence near London.

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