Devta Murti Prakaran

SR No.: 002234
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vinaysagar, Bhagvandas Jain, Rima Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharati Academy
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 318
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 5 MB

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देवतामूर्ति-प्रकरणम् कमल नाल से लगे हुए मधु और कैटभ बनाना।
Jalashayin = The Great Snake, Sheshnag, should be depicted as if lying in the middle of water. He holds up, like a lotus, the precious jewel in his hood which is difficult to behold. (86). ... The God-of-gods (devadeva) Vishnu should be made endowed with four arms and shown slecping/rcclining on Sheshnag, with one foot on the snake's coils. (87).
___Make one of Vishnu's arms extended upto the knees, and place the second arm in the region of the nayel (88). Yet another hand is on top of the head of a demon (devashatru), while a fourth holds a sprig (of blossoms) from the Santana tree (one of the five flowering trees of Indra's paradise). (89): ।
Depict a lotus rising out of the navel (which is perceived as a lake), and install an image of Yadava within thc locus. Place an idol of Brahma, the Pitamah, before (to the cast of?) Vishnu, the Lord of the Earth, and sculpt Madhu and Kctabh (the two demons killed by Vishnu) besides the lotus-stalk. (90). वैकुंठ
वैकुण्ठं च प्रवक्ष्यामि साष्टबाई महाबलम्। ताासनं चतुर्वक्त्रं कर्त्तव्यं शान्तिमिच्छता ॥९१ ॥ गदाखड्गौ बाणचक्रे दक्षिणास्त्रचतुष्टयम्। .. शङ्खखेटधनुः पद्मं वामे दद्याच्चतुष्टयम् ॥१२॥ अग्रत: पुरुषाकारं नारसिंहं च दक्षिणे। अपरं स्त्रीमुखाकारं वाराहास्यं तथोत्तरम् ॥९३ ॥ ...
वैकुंठ देव की मूर्ति का स्वरूप कहता हूँ-आठ भुजा वाली, महा बल वाली, गरुड की सवारी करने वाली, चार मुख वाली, दाहिने हाथों में गदा, खड्ग, बाण और चक्र को धारण करने वाली, बाँयी भुजाओं में शङ्ख, ढाल, धनुष और पद्म को धारण करने वाली, इस प्रकार बैकुंठ की मूर्ति शान्ति को चाहने वाला बनावे। चार मुखों में आगे का मुख पुरुष के जैसा, दक्षिण तरफ. का नरसिंह के