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c. The figures on door-way of the mandapa
door-way of the garbhagrha (both figures on the walls in r. angle to the lintel)
door-way of the backshrine
Type I (Siva).
BRUHN KHAJURAHO
Jain Education International
the three door-lintels
left figure = Brahmāņi (3 [4] heads, hamsa) śakti/pustaka
././kamandalu (resting).
middle figure padma (?)/cakra cakra (ring)/dhanus gadā/kheṭaka khadga/gadā
abhaya/sankha
right f. Brahmāṇī (3[4] heads, hamsa?) sakti/pustaka
bijapura (?)/kamandalu (hanging)
left figure Laksmi
padma (full-blown, stalk)/padma (f., st.) abhaya/kamandalu (resting)
=
(elephants on the padmas facing each other) right figure Sarasvati padmasarpa/pustaka vīņā
Cakreśvari (Garuda)
=
left figure Sarasvati padmasarpa/pustaka vīņā
middle figure = Laksmi padmasarpa/padmasarpa ././kamandalu (hanging) right figure Sarasvati padmasarpa/pustaka varada/kamandalu (hanging)
STATISTICS
(The figures described under B c-e. are left aside)
4 peculiar iconograms (Nandi not counted): 8 Sivas of the garbhagṛha, XII 1 (= 1śāna), XII 1".
3: III 1, V 3', XI 17".
2: III 9, III 134, IV 7, XI 16",
1: III 9u ( X 8"), III 111, IV 2bu, IV 4u, IV 8, IV 8u, X 7, X 91.
mutilated figures: (garbhagṛha) III 12 (1áána), IX 51. figures with bijapūra: X 3', X 7", IX 81
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