An Unbiased View of bhairav
Erndl reveals how this mythic cycle juxtaposes the conflicting pictures in the goddess: evidently chaste and benign in the public Vaiṣṇava pilgrimage cult and bloodthirsty inside the remaining-handed tantricism exemplified by her would-be rapist Bhairava-nātha.भक्तवत्सलं स्थितं समस्तलोकविग