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ART-OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
(PART X The $rivatsa-cthna is absent. On stylistic basis it can be assigned to the tenth century, Plate 342A.
CAUMUKHIS (63.1187) : One of them is small in size, with the miniature figures of Tirthankaras seated in dhyana-mudra on all the four sides. The upper part is decorated with a caitya-window with a kalasa at the top. It is smallsized and belongs to circa tenth century. Plate 342B. Another caumukhi (47.109/207) has four Tirthankaras seated between two pilasters in four niches of a common pavilion, facing the four directions. It is square on plan and has a terraced base and a Sikhara, the latter being crowned by a kalasa or finial. It is damaged at places and is hollow inside.
CAKREŚVARI (67:152): Seated in lalitäsana on a lotus-seat mounted on a rectangular pedestal, she is cight-armed and carries discs in her six hands. Her front right hand is in gift-bestowing attitude and the corresponding left carries a citron. She wears a high crown, circular ear-rings and a garland. The back-frame showing the figure of Adinātha in meditation is crowned by a triple umbrella. Garuda, the vāhana of the Devi, is depicted in front. The facial features of the figure have been rubbed off. The image is a fine specimen of the Pratihāra art of the tenth century. Plate 343A.
TWO-ARMED AMBIKĀ (68-190) : She sits at ease on a couchant lion carrying a branch of a mango-tree (damaged at top) in her right hand and holding her child with the left. Her other son stands on her proper left. The back-frame is supported by gaja-vyālas depicted on either side of the goddess. A lotus-halo behind her head has flames emanating on all sides. A miniature figure of Neminātha in ardha-padmāsana is shown at the top of the image. The image is a west-Indian product of the ninth century. Plate 344.
FOUR-ARMED AMBIKĀ (484 11): Seated in lalitåsana on a couchant lion, mounted on a rectangular pedestal, she holds in her upper hands, a cluster of mangoes, in the front right a fruit and in the front left the child resting on the thigh. Another child stands to her proper right. She wears a karanda-mukuța, ear-rings, a necklace, bracelets, anklets and the lower garment. Around the head is a semicircular lotus-patterned halo. The back support is crowned by a pürna-ghata and also has a seated figure of Neminātha enclosed in a rectangular niche above the head of Ambikā. The typical crown, the broad face with prominent chin and the modelling of the figure suggest the hand of a Paramara artist. The image bears an inscription dated sarhvat 1203.
A GILT AMBIKÄ (49.12/3): Standing gracefully under a fruit-laden mangotree on lotus-pedestal mounted on a decorated rectangular base, she holds a
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