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Jaina-Rūpa-Mandana kataka mudrás are shown by the two lower ones. The goddess has five snake-hoods overhead and rides on the swan (hamsa).253
In the Father Heras Institute, St. Xavier's College, Bombay, is a mutilated sculpture where yakşi Padmavati shows the axe and the noose in her right and the left upper hands and the varada mudrå and the citron with the corresponding lower ones. The sculpture hails probably from Karnataka.
In the Panca Basadi, Stavanidhi, in Chikkodi taluq, Belgaum district, Karnataka, is a sculpture of Parsvấnātha standing with Dharanendra sitting on his right and Padmavati on his left. The devt has one snake-hood and shows the sword and the shield in her right and the left upper hands respectively and the lotus and the citron in the corresponding lower ones.
Special Forms of Padmăvati (Four-Armed Variety continued)
Mallisena says that Padmavati is known by six other names, namely, Totalā, Tvaritá, Nitya, Tripurā, Kamasadhini, and Tripura-Bhairavi.
In addition to these six special forms there exists one more special form, Nowa BhairavaPadmavati which latter is already described earlier along with other forms of the goddess. Forms which are worshipped under special names that do not include the title Padmavati although they are forms of the goddess Padmavati, such as the six noted above, are here treated as the special forms of Padmavati.254 The Vidyānusasana gives a full description of all these six forms. Out of these six mentioned above, tho first four are four-armed, and the next two are eight-armed. These are described below.
1. Totală
Totalā has four hands showing the noose, the vajra, the fruit and the lotus. The colour and the váhana are not specified in the work; very probably, she is like the principal deity, red in colour, riding on the kuk kuța-sarpa 255
2. Tvarità
Tvaritā is red in complexion and shows the conch, the lotus, the abhaya and the varada in her four hands. The vähana is not specified.256
3. Nitya
Nitya has the noose, the goad, the lotus and the rosary, in her four hands, and rides the swan. She is red in complexion and shines with a halo of flames behind her head.257
4. Kamasādhini
Kamasādhini is red like the bandhūka flower and rides on the kukkuța-sarpa. In her four hands she carries the conch, the disc, the fruit and the lotus.258
C. Eight-Armed Variety
5. Tripura
The complexion of Tripurā is red like saffron and she is eight-armed. She carries the trident, the disc, the goad, the lotus, the bow, the arrow, the fruit and the goad, in her eight hands.256
A beautiful eight-armed form of Padmavati (as Tripura) is available in the vedibandha niche on south, in the Jaina temple at Jhalrapatan (Jhalawar, Rajasthan), dating from c. 11th cent. A.D. The
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