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the other on the devakulika door of the Parsvanatha temple fully corresponds to the text. The other five images show a slight change in the depiction of attributes. One of these carries arrow, bow, broken varada and (broken) and pitcher and is located on the gadhamandapa door of the Mahavira temple. Another image holds arrow, bow, varada and (broken) and is scultured on the mukhamandapa pilaster of the Śantinatha temple. Two images located on the güdhamandapa doorframe of the Parsvanatha temple and the sanctum wall of the Neminatha temple carry arrow or bow in one of her arms, while the other three hands are broken off. The remaining one built on the devakulika door of the Neminatha temple bears arrow, bow, varada and fruit.
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15. Mānasi - There are three images of this goddess. One of these built on the devakulika doorframe of the Pärsvanätha temple rides a swan and bears in four hands vajra, päša, abhaya and fruit. Another image located on the mukhamandapa pilaster of the Santinätha temple also rides a swan but holds lotus and fruit in two hands, while the objects of the other two hands are mutilated. The iconographic texts also presecribe swan as her vahana, but her symbols include varada and vajra or vajra, varada and rosary." The image in the panel 16 Vidyadevis in the Santinatha temple carries in four hands noose, lotus (p), varada & fruit. On the basis of noose symbol. which one of the aforesaid images also possesses, this image may be identified with Manavi, although the most recognizing symbol, viz. vajra, is conspicuous by its absence.
16. Mahāmānasi According to the Nirvanakalika, she rides a lion and bears in four hands varada, sword, kamandalu and lance. The Säntinätha temple possesses two images of the goddess, one in the panel of 16 Mahavidyas in the rangamandapa ceiling and the other located on the mukhamandapa pilaster. Both these images bear in four hands noose, lotus, citrus and varada and fortunately the latter also represents the lion mount. Another image of the goddess is to be seen on the gudhamandapa
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doorframe of the Mahāvīra temple. Here again she rides a lion but holds vajra and vajraghanta in two hands, her other two hands are sadly damaged. An image of the goddess is also found on the doorframe of the central devakulika of the Parsvanatha temple. Riding on a lion the goddess here carries in four hands sword, shield, varada and conch. Except for the vahana, none of these images fully corresponds to the description of the iconographic texts.
References:
1. Bhattacharya, B.C., The Jaina Iconography, Delhi, 1974, p.124.
Ibid., p.124, n.4.
Tiwari, M.N.P., 'Iconography of Sixteen. Jaina Mahavidyās as Represented in the Ceiling of the Santinatha temple at Kumbhäriä, Sambodhi, vol. 2, No. 3. Ahmedabad, Oct. 1973, pp. 17-18 4. Shah U.P., Iconography of the Sixteen Jaina
Mahavidyas, Journal of the Indian Society of Original Art, Vol. XV, Calcutta, 1947, pp.125-26.
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5. See, Bhattacharya, B.C., op. cit., p. 125, n.
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6. Ibid., p. 125
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Ibid., p. 126.
8. Ibid., p. 127, n.1.
9. Ibid, p.127.
10. Caturvimśatikā, ed. by H.R. Kapadia, Bombay, 1926, p.119.
11. Shah, U.P., op. cit., p. 146.
12. Bhattcharya, B.C., op. cit., p. 129. 13. Shah, U.P., op. cit., p. 150.
14. Acaradinakara, pt. II, Bombay, 1922, p. 162. 15. See, Bhattacharya, op. cit., pp. 130-131. 16. Ibid., p. 130; Dipāmava,. by P.O. Sompura, Ahmedabad, 1960, p. 419.
17. Bhattacharya, B.C., op. cit., p. 131. 18. Ibid., p. 131.
19. Dipǎmana, p. 421.
20. See, Bhattacharya, B.C., op. cit, p. 13' n. 1.
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