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66. असिफलकमणि श्रीकुण्डिका हस्तिकाऽलं
प्रबलरिपुवनानां कुण्डिका हस्तिकालम् । मृगपतिमधिरूढा सा महामानसी माwag yafegi4TSHIHET 4141 - Caturvimsatikā 15. 60. महामानसी धवलवर्णा सिंहवाहनां चतुर्भुजां वरदासियुक्तदक्षिणकरां कुण्डिकाफलकयुतवामहस्तां चेति ।
-- Nirvāņakalikā, p. 37. सारङ्गसंस्था हिमरोचिराभा भङ्गारखड़गाभयखेटकाङ्का । श्री मानसी यापि महेति पूर्वा सा देवता नो दुरितानि हन्तु ।-Mantrādhirajakalpa 3. 18.
The Caturvimsatikā gives mani (or ratna) in place of varada or abhaya. 67. The object in the lower left hand, in case of the gūdhamandapa figure, is indistinct. 68. These figures are on the northern vedibandha of devakulikā No. 4 and the door-lintels of the
devakulikā Nos. 2 and 4. 69. Klaus Bruhn, The Jaina., pp. 104, 107, 108. 70. Jaina Mahākāli appears to have combined the features of the two Brahminical goddesses
Cāmundā and Mahākāli. See Gopinatha Rao, Elements of Hindu Iconography, Vol. I, Part II, Varanasi (Rep.) 1971, pp. 358, 386. The Jainas have adopted the names, and sometimes features also, of the Brahminical goddesses like Kāli, Mahākāli and Cāmundā, all terrific in
appearance, for the Mahāvidyās. But nowhere the Mahāvidyās are visualised in terrific form. 71. Gopinatha Rao, Elements., p. 360; U. P. Shah, Iconography., p. 148. 72. Shah, p. 140; Rao, pp. 341-42. 73. B. Bhattacharyya, The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Calcutta, 1968 (Rep.), p. 235; and Shah,
pp. 129-30. 74. The Yakşa-Yaksi pair of Jina Párśvanātha is also associated with snake. Photo Credit :
Plates 4, 5, 8, M. A. Dhaky (Varanasi/Ahmedabad); Plates 3, 7, 8, American Institute of Indian studies, Varanasi; Plate 2, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi.
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