Consider the yakshi of the east gate of the Great Stupa. Identify the type of being portrayed in this sculpture and describe the structure it adorned. Explain briefly the way in which this type of representation is incorporated and accepted in its setting
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The Great Stupa is a solid earthen mound faced with stone and serves as a burial site that shelters and honors the relics buried inside. On the east gate of the Great Stupa is a figure of a voluptuous female, called a yakshi, a nature spirit embodying the ideas of fertility and abundance. The yakshi is not part of the Buddhist faith but belongs to older Indian beliefs. The female form was thought auspicious, and the yakshi showers blessings of abundance on the site and all who enter it.
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