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Iconography of 24 Tirtharkaras
143 Patna Museum no. 10695 is a standing Candraprabha from Aluara with the crescent shown on the pedestal. The bronze can be assigned to c. 11th-12th cent. A.D. A more beautiful bronze of standing Candraprabha from Achyutarajapura, Orissa, dating from c. 10th-11th cent. A.D., is preserved in the State Museum, Bhuvanesvara. A metal image of standing Candraprabha from Käkatpur, Orissa, is preserved in the Ashutosh Museum, Calcutta. 119 The same museum has a stone Caturmukha shrine from Dewalia, Burdwan, on one side of which is a standing Candraprabha with the moon symbol and figures of standing Rsabha, Mahävira and Pärsvanātha on the remaining three sides. 120 The Indian Museum Calcutta has a beautiful miniature stone shrine of Candraprabha from Bihar showing the Jina standing on a double lotus below which in the centre of the pedestal is his crescent moon symbol.121 There are 23 more miniature figures of standing Tirtha karas. The pedestal shows four-armed figures of his yaksa and yakşi.
Cave 7, Khandagiri, Orissa, has a rock-cut figure of Candraprabha sitting on a big lotus with a long stalk. Below the lotus is a mark of a big crescent. Caves 8 and 9 each also have a figure of Candraprabha in the sitting posture. 122 Candraprabha seems to have been popular in Eastern India in Bihar, Bengal and Orissa.
Allahabad Museum no. 295 is a sculpture of Candraprabha in padmāsana sitting on a big lotus placed on a simhāsana. 123 In the centre of the lotus is the crescent symbol. On the right end of the pedestal is the two-armed yaksa Sarvānubhūti while on the left end is a two-armed yaksi with the lotus in the right hand and the left arm and legs mutilated. The sculpture is assigned to c. ninth cent. A.D.
At Devgadh, Candraprabha was popular. His images are found in temples nos. 1, 4, 12, 20, 21. In the image in no. 21, hair-locks are shown on his shoulders. All the sculptures date from c. 10th-11th centuries. At Khajuraho, one sculpture on the west wall of the sanctum of the Parśvanātha shrine shows him sitting in the padmasana with two more standing Tirtha karas and two-armed yaksa-yaksini. The second image, also showing him in the sitting posture, is in temple no. 32 and is assigned to c. 12th century A.D. Nos. J.880, J.881 and G. 113 in the State Museum, Lucknow, represent the Jina Candraprabha.
On a Pañca-tirthi sculpture of Candraprabha from Padhavali, Gwalior, M.P., the symbol is given at the foot of the pedestal below the dharmacakra while a pot-bellied two-armed yaksa is shown at the right end. The yakşi shown on the left end carries a garland of flowers with both the hands. Since there are two female standing garland-bearers and a male and a female sitting devotee near the feet of the Jina, it seems that the two-armed sitting female on the left end of the simhasana might have been regarded as a yakşiņi. If so, this would be an exceptional form.
In Devakulikå no. 13, Vimala Vasahi there is in worship a Panca-tirthika sculpture of Candraprabha; in cell no. 26 of the same temple is in worship a Tri-tirthika sculpture of this Jina. In cell no. 30, Rūpini, the wife of Mahāmātya Dhanapala, had installed a sculpture of Candraprabha in samvat 1245, according to the inscription on the pedestal preserved in the cell. According to an inscription on a pedestal in the Neminätha shrine, Kumbharia (Muni Višalavijaya, op. cit., p. 104, inscr. no. 31) a sculpture of Candraprabha was installed there in samvat 1335. In the same temple there is an image of Candraprabha installed in v.s. 1338A.D. 1281 (ibid., p. 106, no. 36). A pedestal in cell 18 of the Pārsvanātha temple, Kumbharia, has an inscription which says that this image (now lost which was on the pedestal) of Candraprabha was installed in samvat 1259= A.D. 1202. In the temple of Dharmanatha at Radhanpur there is a metal image of Candraprabha installed in samvat 1306; in the temple of Ajitanātha at Radhanpur there is in worship another metal image of this Jina installed in samvat 1423; in the Cintāmaņi Pārsvanātha temple, Radhanpur is in worship a metal Panca-tirthi of Candraprabha, installed in samvat 1439.
A beautiful sculpture of Candraprabha, of white marble and with full parikara and every detail minutely carved, is preserved in the sanctum of a shrine of Candraprabha at Patan, North Gujarat. The sculpture dates from c. late fifteenth or early sixteenth century A.D. The crescent moon is shown in the centre of the decorated cushion on which the Jina is sitting in padmasana. In the centre of the simhasana is the four-armed Santi-devi, while at the right end of simhāsana is the four-armed Vijaya yakşa and
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