Book Title: Ambika on Jaina Art and Literature
Author(s): Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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________________ 14 Western India (National Museum, New Delhi), A.D. 1146 14 and 15). The image, belonging to the Paramāra art, shows Ambikā as seated in lalitāsana on lion. The Yakși holds fruit, āmra-lumbi, āmra-lumbi and child. Her elder son as usually stands on right. The museums at Koţā, Jhālāwār and several other places of Rajasthan preserve a good number of figures of two-armed Ambikā, seated on lion and bearing amra-lumbi and child. 11 The Lūna Vasahi, .constructed in A.D. 1230-31 (V.S. 1287), contains the images inscribed between A.D. 1230 and 1236. A colossal cult image of Ambikā (in deva-kulikā No. 24) accompanied by the diminutive figures of different Mahāvidyās and Yakşas in the parikara, is an important example which has close parallel to the figure of Ambikā from Patiān-dāi. The figure of Ambikā, however, is a later replacement, but the parikara is an original one. The two-armed Ambikā, as usual, holds an āmra-lumbi and child. 54 Ambikä

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