“Ratnagiri has the highest number of votive ... Archaeologists have unearthed close to 50 idols of Buddhist deities such as Tara, Chunda, Hariti, Avalokitesvara, Heruka, Marichi, Jambhala ...

The discovery of 2-metre-long Buddha heads with intact features in Ratnagiri establishes that Buddhism was the predominant religion in the early medieval period ...

Ratnagiri is no stranger to Buddha sculptures ... one of the most widely worshipped Buddhist figures in Mahayana Buddhism; Tara, a female Buddha who is a consort of Amoghasiddhi Buddha; Marici ...

and a slew of votive stupas featuring deities like Tara, Chunda, and Manjusri. The Ratnagiri haul doesn’t stop at big statues. The team also found Sanskrit inscriptions on sealings and ...