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connected with it penetrated in the faiths of later period and Buddha and many Hindu gods were portrayed in this posture. This posture is most popular with all the ascetics and hermits in India.
All the Tirthankars are portrayed in an almost uniform manner in the Jain temples and it is possible to distinguish them practically from only special signs, usually placed on the pedestals of these sculptures and sometimes from the special colour of the portrayals. Thus,
(1) Rishabha has yellow colour, and the sign is an elephant. (2) Ajita-yellow colour, sign, an elephant.
(3) Sambhava-yellow colour, sign, a horse. (4) Abhinandan---sign a monkey. (5) Sumati-yellow colour, sign a bird. (6) Padmaprabha-red colour, sign, a lotus. (7) Suparshva-golden colour, sign a swastika
Chhandraprabha-white colour, sign, a half-nioon (9) Pushpadanta-white colour, sign, a makara.16 (10) Sitala-golden colour, sign, sitala (four-petalled
a
rosette).
(11) Sreyan-golden colour, sign, a rhinoceros (according to another tradition, an eagle).
(12) Vasupujya-red colour, sign, a buffalo.
(13) Vimala-golden colour, sign, a wild boar.
(14) Ananta-yellow colour, sign, a falcon (with Shvetambaras) or a bear (with Digambaras).
(15) Dharma-yellow colour, sign, a vajra.
(16) Shanti-yellow colour, sign, an antelope. (17) Kunthu-yellow colour, sign, a goat.
(18) Ara-yellow colour, sign, Nandavarta (cryptogram in the centre of which swastika is portrayed, but according to another tradition his sign is fish).
(19) Malli-blue colour, sign, a jar (Digambaras consider that Malli was a woman).
(20) Munisuvrata-black colour, sign, a tortoise.
16. Mythological monster portrayed in the form of a crocodile with an upturned nose. Shvetambaras consider that crocodile is the sign of Pushpadanta and Digambaras portray a crab as his sign. (P. Thomas, Epics, Myths and Legends of India, p. 194.)
