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The pattern of the protecting serpent (nāga) as in Vinaya Pāli I 3 of the Buddha, sheltered from bad weather by the snake king Mucalinda,' was possibly the example for Pārsva.
Guņabhadra, Uttarapurāņa 73
1. sa pātu Pārsvanātho 'smān, yan-mahimnâiva bhū-dharah
nvasedhi; kevalam bhakti-bhogini-chatra-dhāranam
May Pārsvanāth protect us, by whose mere power the mountain (thrown by Kamatha) was averted. The female serpent (Padmăvatī) carrying the umbrella acts only from devotion."
2. dharma-svetâtapatram te sūte viśva-visarpiņīm
chāyām päpätapa-plustās tathôpi kila ke-cana
Your white umbrella of the Doctrine provides a shadow over everything / an all covering shadow. Some, however, are indeed burnt by the heat of Evil."
3. sarva-bhāsām bhavad-bhāṣām satyām sarvôpakāriņīm
santah śrnvanti samtustäh, khalās tāñ ca na jätu cit
Good people are pleased to hear your true speech, all that you say (?)!2 that helps all, but mischievous men are never pleased.
Giteau 1976 plate 12; Zimmer and Campbell 1983 Il plate 561. The pattern occurs later also in Sivaism as with the linga in Lepakshi (Michell 1982: 17).
18 In Pannālāl Jain's (afterwards: PJ) sometimes hclpful Hindi paraphrase this pertains to Padmăvati's holding an umbrella over Pārsva as seen, e.g., in the Jaina cave at Badami (Titze 1998: 35; Nagarajaiah 2005: illustrations 6 and 9). The stanza is cited in Nagarajaiah 1999: xix.
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Cf. vs 140.
Read: -bhāsam a light for all'?
