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Jaina-Rūpa-Mandana same set of symbols in two consecutive verses. In the first, it is said that starting from the right lower hand, the goddess shows the varada mudra, the goad, the noose and the fruit. The number of her eyes is not mentioned, and the goddess is called Padmavati. In the second verse the same symbols are given and it is said in addition that the goddess Bhairava-Padmavati has three eyes. It is evident that all these texts describe one and the same form. In this form the devi is variously addressed as Bhairava-Padmavati, Kamalāvati and Padmavati.
A figure of Padmăvati standing to the left of Pārsvanātha and showing the same set of symbols can be seen in Fig. 78 from Bhandara Basti, Sravana Belago!a, illustrated in this book. A sculpture of Padmavats from the Jaina Basti, Lakkundi, Dharwar district, Karnataka, illustrates this variety (Fig. 100). The goddess sits with the left knee upright and carries the goad and the noose in the right and the left upper hands respectively while the corresponding lower hands show the varada mudrå and the fruit. The same form of yakşi Padmavati is seen on a sculpture of standing Pārsvanatha from Pārsvanatha Basadi, Rona, Dharwar district, on the figure of Päršva in the set of 24 Jinas at Veour, and in a sculpture of standing Pārśva at Lakkundi. Another sculpture, from a pedestal lying in a Svetämbara temple, Camhay. illustrates the same variety of form. The devi has three snake-hoods overhead. The pedestal is date in the year V.S. 1332. A third specimen is a bronze from Cambay giving the same form (Fig. 101). Here the kukkufa is also shown. A fourth example is a painting on folio 239 of the palm-leaf manuscript of Vivekamanjari in the Santinātha Bhandara, Cambay. Here Padmavati is painted red and wears a lower garment with red design.
A similar form in the Neminátha temple, Kumbharia, shows the rosary along with the varada mudrā in the right lower hand of the goddess. Padmāvali here has five snake-hoods over the head.
In the beautiful sculpture of standing Parśva, illustrated as Fig. 46 in this book, yakşi Padmavati sitting in lalitāsana shows the same form. She has one snake-hood. The sculpture is a beautiful specimen of Chalukyan art of c. 12th century, preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
In a paper manuscript of Pârsvanāthacaritra at Patan (c. 15th-16th cent. A.D.), the devi, with three snake-hoods overhead, shows the goad and the noose in the right and the left upper hands respectively and the varadakşa (rosary+varada mudra) and the lotus in the corresponding lower ones. A kukkutasarpa is her vähana.
A sculpture worshipped in a niche in the Navakhandā Pārsvanātha temple, Cambay, shows the goddess sitting in lalitásana and carrying the noose and the goad in the right and the left upper hands, thus reversing the order of symbols of the above-mentioned figures. The right lower hand, held in the varada pose, also carries the rosary while the left lower one holds a fruit. The vāhana remains unchanged. The devi has five snake-hoods over the crown. Figure 101 in this book illustrates a small bronze image of Padmavati sitting in the lalitåsana and having three snake-hoods over her head, and a kukkuța-sarpa below the left knee. The devi shows the same set of symbols as in the sculpture from Navakhanda Pārsva temple just described. The bronze is preserved in the Sitalanātha temple, Cambay. Padmavati, showing the same order of symbols but sitting in the padmasana and having a kukkuța-sarpa as her vähana, is shown as a yakşi accompanying a big marble sculpture of Pårsvanatha in a Svetambara Jaina temple at Patan, N. Gujarat. The right lower hand of the goddess is here held in the varada midrá but does not carry the rosary.
On the door-lintel from Khajuraho, illustrated in Fig. 91 in this book, Padmāvati is shown as sitting in the lalitāsana with five snake-hoods held like an umbrella behind her head and a kukkusa-sarpa near the left leg. The devi carries the noose and the goad in the right and the left upper hands respectively and shows the varada mudra with the right lower hand. The left lower hand is unfortunately mutilated.
The Aparajitaprccha gives the following symbols for Padmavati: they are the noose, the goad, the lotus and the varada mudra. The goddess is red in complexion and rides on the kukkusa. The order of symbols is not specified. 229
A beautiful white marble sculpture of Padmavati with an inscription dated in v.s. 1254 (A.D. 1197) is in worship in the Digambara Jaina temple, Idar, N. Gujarat. In her right and the left upper hands, the goddess, sitting in the lalitäsana on a kukkuja-sarpa, carries the goad and the noose respectively while
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