Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited

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Chapter VII, consisting of 7t, seventy-four verses gives descriptions of the twentyfour Jaina Tirthajskaras and their attendant yaksas and yaksinīs. The names of the twenty-four Tirthankaras ($1.1---3); the respective bodily colours (sl. 4), their Dhvajas, flags (sl. 5, 6) and the Lunar mansions, Bhas of birth (sl. 7-9) for the different Jinas; and their birth-asterisms, kāsis (sl. 10, 11) are given.
Next, follow, the names of the yakşas, that attend upon the service of the Jinas, Jinopāsaka-yaksas (sl. 12, 13); the attendant female deities to the Jinas, sāsanadevīs (sl. 14–16).
The next subsection deals with descriptions of the yakşas and the yakşiņis for each particular Jina, Jina-yaksa-jaksinimirtis--the male and the female attendants for the twenty-four Jinas being given in pairs (śl. 17-65).
There is a second twelve-handed variety of Cakreśvari, described (sl. 66-68a); as also the names for the eight attendants to the Vitarāga, the self-controlled one (sl. 68, 69); and the characteristics of the eight attendants to Jinendra (sl. 70-73).
Chapter VIII and the last containing 112, one-hundred and twelve verses, concerns itself almost wholly with descriptions of female deities, Devī-marti-lakşanas.
The opening verse (31. 1) gives the general description of the Image Gauri, Gawi-mārtinām sūmānya-laksanam ; then follow the names of twelve different varieties of Gauri (sl. 2), as well as their descriptions (sl. 3—11); the deities in a shrine of Gauri (sl. 15-17), and the attendants to Gauri (sl. 18—20) have asterwards been described.
The next section ($1. 21—35) describes Gañesa (sl. 21) and his different forms, Heramba (śl. 22, 23), Gajānana (sl. 24), Vakratunda (37.25), Ucchişta-ganapati (sl. 26), Heramba (sl. 27), Kșipra-gaṇapati (sl. 28); the deities in a shrine of Gaņeśa ; the attendants of Gaņeśa (śl. 30—35).