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her side loosely tugging at the end of her long scarf. Little Prabhankara, her younger son stands at her left clinging to her scarf, while her elder son Subhankara stands at her right. The goddess is attired in a transparent lower garment with horizontal incised lines, and a long scarf covering her breasts and falling over her shoulders at her sides. She wears profuse jewellery including multi-stranded armlets, keyūra, mekhalä, ratnopavita, large circular ratna-kuṇḍalas, and a ratna-mukuta. Her hair is arranged in two small circular locks at the corners of her head and a bun resting on her shoulder. Over the head of the Yaksi is a mangoe-tree ladden with fruits, above which in the upper-most register of the stele there are five miniature figures of Tirthankaras each seated in dhyanasana on a lotus seat and under a trilinear chatra. From their cognizances carved in the centre of the padmāsana (except that of Parsvanatha), four of them from left to right can be identified as Rsabhanatha, Parsvanatha, Padmaprabha, and Mallinatha (?), while the lanchana of the fifth one is damaged beyond recognition. Lightly incised flowers, possibly roses, are placed in between the Jina figures.
The back of the throne is plain barring two similar flowers flanking the Yaksi. On the edge of the back-slab are decorations in the form of floral scrolls enclosed within a band. The projected part of the pedestal below reveals a lion, the vahana of the Yaksi. On the recessed part are two incised floral rhizomes one on either side, used as decorative appendage.
52.5 cms x 26.5 cms
Circa 7th/8th Century A.D.
Plate No. 32
40. Candraprabha
JAIN JOURNAL
Of the usual pañca-tirthika variety. On the dexter side of the mulanāyaka are the miniature figures of Tirthankaras Rsabhanatha (?) and Parsvanatha, while on the sinister side are figures of Mallinatha (?) and Mahavira. All the Jinas stands in kayotsarga. The chatra above the mula-nayaka is badly damaged. Pedestal below reveals a crescent, the lanchana, placed between two crouching lions.
51 cms x28 cms
Circa 7th/8th Century A.D. Plate No. 33
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