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Jaina Iconography
account is given of Vijaya, the Digambara counterpart of the Yakṣiņi, in their literature. According to it, she should be represented as riding a black boar and carrying the attributes of a conch, sword, disc and Farada Mudrā.1
Hala or Acyuta of the Svetambaras from the nature of her vehicle of a peacock seems to be a form of Sarasvati. This supposition may be supported by the fact that her consort Gandharva rides on a sun and is a divine musician. Sarasvati is known to be also presiding over the art of music. The symbol of a citron, indicating the Yakṣa characteristic is borne by both the husband and the wife. Vijaya of the Digambaras, on the other hand, shown by her boar vehicle, a Yakṣiņi goddess whose form must have been borrowed from Mārici of Buddhism and Vārāhi of Brahmanism. Her other symbols provided by the Digambara books of a disc, sword, conch and Varada speak of her origin from Vārāhi.2
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Dharani or Tarā
The Svetambara texts described Dharani Yakṣini as seated on a lotus and possessing four hands with a citrus, two lotuses, and a rosary. Tārā, the Yakṣiņi of the Digambara is to appear,
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भुशुण्डिपङ्कजभृतौ बिभ्रती दक्षिणेतरी ।
सदा सन्निहिता जज्ञ े प्रभोः: शासनदेवता ॥
Hemacandra's Kunthusramicaritam.
Cr. शिखिगा सचतुर्भुजाऽतिपीता फलपूरं दधती त्रिशूलयुक्तम् । करयोरपसव्ययोश्च सव्ये करयुग्मे तु भुशुण्डिभृद्बलाऽव्यात् ।
1. जयादेवी सुवर्णाभा कृष्णशूकरवाहना । argufazmetanat arar atfacuer II
MSS. Rāmaghāṭa.
Pratisthāsārasaṁgraha (MSS. Jaina Siddhanta Bhavana Library, Arrah).
cr. सचक्रशङ्खासिवरां रुक्माभां कृष्णकोलगां यजे जयाम् ॥
Mandirapratisthavidhāna (MSS. Ibid.)
2. An inscribed image of Vijaya in a group is to be found in the "Pataini Temple" Uchnera State C.I.
3. देवी च धारणी नाम नीलाङ्गी कमलासना ।
मातुलिङ्गोत्पलधरा दक्षिणोभयबाहुका । पद्माक्षसूत्रभृत्
Hemacandra's Aracaritam.
