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The Aparajitaprccha also describes a four-armed image of the goddess as follows:
पाशाङकुश पद्मवरे रक्तवर्णा चतुर्भुजा ।
पद्मासना कुक्कुटस्था ख्याता पद्मावतीति च ॥
— Aparājitaprcchā, 221, 37.
Several images of Padmavati have been discovered in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Of these, the finest sculpture can be seen in the Santinatha temple at Khajuraho, where she is shown seated at ease with her consort Dharanendra.1 Matanga, the Yakṣa of Mahāvīra, has been described as riding on an elephant and holding a mongoose in his right hand and a citron in the left:
महावीरस्य मातङ्गो गजारूढो ( गजारूढः) मितो भवेत् । दक्षिणे नकुलं हस्ते वामे स्याद् बीजपूरकम् ॥
- Rūpamandana, VI, 22. In the Aparajitapṛccha, he has been mentioned in the following words :
फलं वरोऽथ द्विभुजो मातङ्गो हस्तिस स्थितः । यक्षाश्चतुर्विंशतिकास्तयर्षभादितः क्रमात् ।।
— Aparājitaprcchā, 221, 56. Another important Jaina goddess described in the Rupamandana is Siddhāyikā." The four-armed devi having blue complexion rides on a lion. She holds a manuscript, an arrow and a citron, while her remaining hand displays abhaya-mudrā: सिद्रायका ( सिद्धायिका) नीलवर्णा
सिद्धा - ( सिंहा-) रूढा चतुर्भुजा । पुस्तकं चाभयं दत्ते ( धत्ते)
वाणं वै मातुलिङ्गकम् ।।
— Rupamandana, VI, 23.
Bhattacharyya, A. K., An Introduction to the Iconography of the Jaina Goddess Padmāvati, Muni Jinavijaya Abhinandana Grantha, Jaipur, 1971, pp 219-29; Jain, Niraj, Khajuraho Ke Jaina Mandira, Satna 1970, pl. II. Shah, U. P., Yaksini of the twenty-fourth Jina Mahāvīra, Four of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, XXII, 1-2, pp. 78 and plates. A medieval seated image of the devi is also preserved in the State Museum, Lucknow See the Mahavira Favanti Smärikā, Jaipur, 1973, plate facing page 4.
