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Goddess Mahämänasi seated in lalitäsana on her lion mount, on a corridor ceiling in the Vimalavasähi temple. The twenty-armed goddess is flanked on each side by eight-armed divinities.
Notes 1. Folk Images in India, pp. 122-3. 2. The Hindu Temple, vol. I, pp. 165-6. 3. Lannoy, R. The Speaking Tree, pp. 62-3. 4. Neumann, E. The Great Mother, pp. 44, 138. 5. Bynner, W. tr. Lao Tzu, The Way of Life, p. 54. 6. Pal, P. Sensuous Sculpture, p. 10. 7. Pereira, J. Monolithic Jinas, p. xiv. 8. As quoted by U.P. Shah, "Iconography of the Jaina Goddess Sarasvati", ).
of the University of Bombay, 10, 1941, 195-218. 9. Kinsley, D. Hindu Goddesses, p. 60. 10. Ibid., p. 62. 11. As quoted by Jain and Fischer, Jaina Iconography, Part 1, p. 4. 12. Maury, C. Folk Origins of Indian Art, pp. 101-2. 13. As quoted by B.C. Bhattacharya, The Jaina Iconography, p. 45. 14. As quoted by B.C. Bhattacharya, The Jaina Iconography, Part 1, p. 137. 15. For a comprehensive description about vidyadevis see, Shah, U.P. Jaina
Ropa-Mandana, and Bhattacharya, B.C. The Jaina Iconography.
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