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The Churning of the Ocean Milk is a bas-relief about 50 meters long. In it, 88 Gods (devas) line up on the right, and 92 demons (asuras) on the left, each pulling on one end of a long serpent.

The end result of all this tugging and stirring, after 1,000 years, is the elixir of immortality. And everybody wants to get their hands on some of that.

Churning