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Neither the attributes, nor the mount tally with scriptural description. The four armed one has rather more resemblance with the Brahmanical Kaumāri. The Digambara from of this deity as per the text is represented as riding on a crocodile and having the hands equipped with a club, two lotuses and Varada nudrā.
The bronze idol of Gāndhärı fashioned along with figures of her Yakşa Kumāra and Tirthankara Vasupujya of Achutarajapur bearing Acc. No. 265 in the Orissa State Museum is seated in mahārājalilā pose wearing anklets, girdle, bangles, sacred thread, necklace, armlets, ear-studs and mukula. The right hand of this Sāsanadevi, rests on her right knee and the left hand placed on the left thigh.
13. Vairoti
The only image of Vairoti appears in lalita pose on a plain pedestal in BārabhujiGumphā. She, as Sāsanadevi is associated with Vimalanātha, the thirteenth Tirthankara of the Jainas. Her conventional mark of cognizance, the snake is here replaced with a crane below the pedestal. Contrary to the four hands in the text she is represented here with eight hand having varada mudra, arrow, sword and Parafu in her right hands and vajra, bow, spear and shield in her left hands. Except the bow and arrow, the other two attributes of snake as per the textual description have been ignored in this case. An oval shaped halo has been designed behind her head as usual. 38
14. Anantamati
A ten-armed figure of Anantamati, the Sasanadevi of Anantanātha, the fourteenth Tirthankara is carved in the back wall of Bārabhuji-Gumphā. She is shown here seated in lalita pose on a plain pedestal below which her lanchana, the horse (?), with head damaged is depicted.39 In the text Anantamati as carried by a swan and displaying a bow, arrow, fruit and varada mudra as attributes in four of her hands. But the figure represented in Bārabhuji-Gumphā is provided with a staff like object, vajra, stalks of fullblown lotus, shield and hammer in the left-hands and the varada mudrā, a dagger, spear, sword and the remaining one being damaged. An oval shaped halo is shown behind her head. D. Mitra described her as an eight armed figure. 40
15. Mānasi . The single icon of Mānasi, the Sāsanadevi of Dharmanātha seated in lalita pose
on a plain pedestal in Bārabhuji-Gumphā. Her mark of cognizance, the horse (?) is badly disfigured. She is here provided with Varada mudra, pellet, three pronged object in left hands and bell, banner and conch in the right. The oval shaped halo appears behind her head as usual. The text besides, the mount tiger, prescribed for her six hands with different attributes like Varada mudrā, two lotuses, arrow, goad and bow.41
38. Ibid, p. 133. 39. Ibid, p. 134. 40. D. Mitra, JAS, Vol. I, 1969, No. 2, p. 131. 41. B.C. Bhattacharya, The Jaina Iconography, p. 135.
