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Narayanpur
(Dharwar,
Karnataka), c. 11th century (p. 115)
proportioned body are excellent. The slim body with narrow waist and beautiful hair curls hanging on cheeks are also magnificent.
S.N. Nawab has published a painting of two-armed Ambikā, as usual seated in lalitāsana on a cushion with the figure of her mount lion shown below the seat. The paintings, dated V.S. 1241 (A.D. 1185), renders Ambikā with a child, seated in lap, in right hand and an amra-lumbi with seven mango fruits in the corresponding left. The goddess, wearing green coloured sārī showing pink coloured resette decorations, is shown giving motherly smiling look at her son in the lap. She wears a beautiful long necklace, triangular mukuta and hovering dupattā.
One very interesting palm-leaf manuscript of Pandava-caritra by Maladhārī-Devaprabha Suri in the Sāntinātha Bhandāra, Cambay, contains on its first folio a painting of Ambikā. The four-armed Ambikā sitting under a mango tree with its branches spread all around, shows the abhayamudrā, āmra-lumbi, āmra-lumbi and her son Priyankara, lying in lap. The golden complexioned Ambikā, wearing lower garment, hovering scarf, kundalas, mukuta and other ornaments, has benign appearance. Her vāhana lion and second son Subhankara are also
