Her right arm is broken – the child is headless – DRI alerts
She is standing beneath a mango grove and has a child on her left arm. Her right front arm is broken. The child is headless and its left arm is broken. She is wearing a Karand Mukuta and is having elaborate ornaments, namely: Kundala Keyura , necklace, kati bandha , mekhala , bangels and payal and foot. Another child is seated on a lion. There are other humans on both sides.
Nothing grotesque. It's only an antique sculpture which had been stolen from Centrally Protected Monument Sidheshwar Temple, Nemawar , Distt , Dewas ( M.P. ). The central image along with the child has been chipped off and stolen. The foot portion and the surrounding frame as well as the mango grove portion remains as left over. The sculpture made of Bluish Black Stone belongs to 11th-12th Century A.D.
DRI wants the field formations to be alerted to thwart any attempt to export the above mentioned antique illegally (can it be exported legally?). Results achieved, if any, may please be intimated to this Directorate in due course.