For more than 900 years, a celebrated stone sculpture carried the wrong identity. Long believed to depict Saraswati, the 12th-century idol has now been identified as goddess Gayatri after archaeologists used advanced digital documentation and 3D mapping to re-examine its iconography, according to Vinita Chaturvedi's Times of India report.
The red sandstone sculpture, housed at Bhopal's State Museum and originally unearthed in Dhar in southwestern Madhya Pradesh, has emerged as one of India's rarest known depictions of Gayatri, the personification of the Gayatri Mantra and Vedic wisdom.
