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On the Stamp
The standing figure of the Didarganj Yakshi, carved in stone and carrying a fly-whisk, on a dark ground, with its name in Hindi and English and the words “Festival of India”, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Didarganj Yakshi
India Post issued two stamps in June 1985 for the Festival of India in the United States and France, which ran until the spring of 1986 with exhibitions, music, dance, drama and film. This stamp, issued on 13 June, shows one of the treasures of early Indian sculpture. The life-size figure of Chunar sandstone, highly polished, was found in 1917 at Didarganj, near Patna, and is now in the Bihar Museum. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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