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riding on the Garuda. The deity has eight arms; her one hand is held in gift-bestowing attitude, while others carry a bow, a noose and disc, etc.
ašaû §¤qqf arerfærszaigal | वरं बाणं चक्रं (शक्तिशूलमनाकुलम् ? ) ।।
-Rupamanḍana, VI, 18.
The Maladevi temple at Gyarasapur1 has an interesting image, where she is shown riding on Garuda and carrying a noose, a thunderbolt and disc, etc., in her hands.
The Rupamandana also describes a twelve-armed image of the goddess holding discs in her eight hands, and thunderbolts and citron in the remaining two cach:
द्वादशभुजाष्टचक्राणि वज्रयोर्द्वयमेव च । मातुलिङ्गाभये चैव पद्मस्था गरुडोपरि ।।
-Rupamanḍana, VI, 24. The Aparajitapṛccha and the Devatāmurtiprakarana3 also refer to twelve-armed images of the devi. Dr. U. P. Shah1 has discussed the iconography of Cakreśvari with the help of several photographs of the images from different parts of India.
I.
Deva, K., Mālādevi temple at Gyāraspur, Sri Mahāvīra Jaina Vidyalaya Golden Jubilee Volume, Bombay, 1968, pp. 262 ff.
2. Cf. षट्पादा द्वादशभुजा चक्राण्यष्टी द्विवज्रकम् ।
मातुलिङ्गाभये चैव तथा पद्मासनाऽपि च ।। गरुडोपरिसंस्था च चक्रेशी हेमवणिका ।
-Aparajitapṛccha, 221, 15-16.
3. Cf. अथ द्वितीयभेदेन चक्रे (श्वरी) । द्वादशभुजाष्टचक्रे वज्रयोर्द्वयमेव च । मातुलिङ्गाभयं चैव पद्मस्था ग ( रुडो ) परि ||
-Devatamurtiprakaraṇa, 7, 66.
4. Shah, U.P., Iconography of Cakreśvari, the Yakşi of Rṣabhanatha, Jour. of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, XX, 3, pp. 280-313 and plates; Settar, S, Cakreśvari in Karṇāṭak Literature and Art, Oriental Art, (N. S.) London, XVII, 1, pp. 63-69 and figures; Sharma, B. N., Unpublished Jaina Bronzes in the National Museum, New Delhi, Jour. of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, XIX, 3, p. 276, fig 2; Some Interesting Temple Sculptures at Osiä, Roopa-Lekha, New Delhi, XL, 1 & 2, pp. 100-101, fig VII; Gandhävala Ki Jaina Mürtiyān, Anekānta, Delhi, XIX, 1-2, pp. 129 ff, fig. 4.
