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cle, a short tailed animal (ram) is shown below the pedestal. She has the oval shaped halo behind head, in her eight hands, she is represented with varada mudrā, a long spear (sakti), arrow and a sword in the right and a cone-shaped object (conch) bow, shield and banner in the left. Neighther the mount nor the attributes in her hands tally with the textual description. The Digambara version in the image provides lion as the riding animal and citrus, sword, shield and varada-mudrā as conventional attributes in four hands. Her original name seems to have been derived from that of Durgā, who bears the same name in Brahmanism.45
20. Bahurupiņi
Bahurupini, associated with Tirthankara Munisuvrata with the exception of all the Sāsanadevis in Bārabhuji-Gumphā is carved in a reclining pose on a plain bed (cot). She is attended by three other figures one of which shown fanning her. Below her bed is placed a water pot. Of the two hands, the left one is traced below the head and the right one is traced over the body. The halo behind head is not shown here.
The text, however, provides for her a shield, fruit, sword and varada mudrà as attributes in four hands and a black snake to ride. 46
21. Chamunda
Chamundā, sāasnadeyi of Naminātha, is depicted with multiple heads and an oval shaped halo in Bārabhuji-Gumphā. She is seated in lalita pose on a plain pedestal below which her mount, or the mark of cognizance, the swan is shown. In her four hands, she is represented with varada mudrā and rosary in the right and water-pot and trident in the left. The oval shaped halo is found as usual behind the head.
The Chamundā image as per the text rides on a doliphin and carries a rosary, staff, shield and sword. The image in this case has more resemblance with Brāhmaṇi of the Hindu pantheon.47
22. Amra (Ambikā)
Figures of Amra or Ambikā, the sāsanadevi of Neminātha, the twenty-second Tirthankara of the Jainas are confronted with at places like Khandagiri (Fig. 35 & 52), Podasingidi (Fig. 85 & 86), Jambhira (Fig. 89), Barudi, Badasai, Balighat (Balasore), Kachela (Fig. 119), B. Singpur (Figs. 129, 130, 131 and 132), Brahmesvarpatna and Achutarajapur of Orissa (Figs. 65, 66 & 67). She appears to be extremely popular of all Sasanadevi figures in Orissa. Her images are designed either seated with her Yakşa Gomedha on a common pedestal or carved independently. When carved alone she was
45. Ibid, p. 139. 46. Ibid, p. 140. 47. Ibid, p. 141.
