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Jaina-Rupa-Mandana cup or the citron, but even in the case of the sculpture discussed by Brindabana Bhattacharya, the lion vehicle of Ambikā is absent (the partly mutilated figure to the left of Ambikā represented some worshipper and not an animal) and the five figures on the pedestal seem to represent five planets or some minor deities. The sculpture was carved in an age (c. 13th century A.D.) when the iconography of Ambika was so well known that she would carry mango-bunch, rather than a citron, and would be shown as standing under a mango-tree only. And no other yakşi carries a child with her in Jaina iconography.
Unfortunately almost all available sculptures of this type bear no inscriptions and in a few cases of short inscriptions on pedestals (as in a bronze in the Nāgpur Museum or in No. A(C)2,329 in the Rajshahi Museum, from Deopara, district Rajshahi) the inscriptions do not help us in identifying this pair. But the short inscription on No. 278 in the Mathura Museum is read as Priyati Siddhah. If this has any connection with Priyakärini and Siddhartha, the Mother and Father of Mahavira, according to Dig. tradition, then the riddle of identification of this group is solved. We are not quite sure about it and in the absence of any other labelled sculptures of this group, the identification of this group, as representing the Parents of the various Tirtharkaras suggested here, is to be regarded as tentative only, and in this the panel at KumSaria, and Figs. 81 and 85 A from Khajuraho are our only guides.
TABLE I
Parents of Jinas
No.
Tirthankara
Father
Mother
1. Rşabhanatha 2. Ajitanatha 3. Sambhavanatha 4. Abhinandana 5. Sumatinătha
Marudevi Vijaya Senā (Sve.); Suşeņā (Dig.) Siddhartha Mangala
6. Padmaprabha 7. Supārsvanätha
Susīma Prthvi
8. Candraprabha 9. Puspadanta 10. Sitalanatha 11. Sreyamsanatha 12. Vasupujya 13.. Vimalanātha 14. Anantanatha 15. Dharmanātha 16. Santinătha 17. Kunthúnatha 18. Aranātha 19. Mallinātha 20. Munisuvrata 21. Naminātha 22. Neminātha 23. Parsvanātha 24. Mahavira
Nabhi Jitaśatru Jitari Samvara Megha (Sve.) Meghaprabha (Dig.) Dhara or Dharana (Dig.) Pratiștha or Supratiştha (Dig.) Mahásena Sugriva Drdharatha Vişnu Vasupujya Kstavarmā Simhasena Bhānu Visvasena Sûra or Suryasena (Dig.) Sudarśana Kumbha Sumitra Vijaya Samudravijaya Aśvasena Siddhartha
Lakṣmaṇā or Lakşmi (Dig.) Rāmā Nanda Vişnu or Venudevi (Dig.) Jayā or Vijaya (Dig.) Syamā or Jayaśyāma (Dig.) Suyaśā or Sarvayaśā (Dig.) Suvrata Acirá or Airă (Dig.) Sri Devi or Mitrā (Dig.) Prabhāvati Padma Vaprā or Vipritā (Dig.) Sivādevi Vāmā or Varmila Trišala or Priyakariņi (Dig.)
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