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A Paramāra Sculpture in the British Museum
description. His fig. 22 illustrates an image of 1477 A.D, which follows this
account.
10 Shah, "Jaina Bronzes", Pls 67, 68.
11 P. Pal, The Sensuous Immortals (Los Angeles, N.d.) Pl. 20; U P. Shah. Akota Bronzes (Bombay 1959), Pls. 14, 48b etc
12 The sculpture from Hinglajgarh has not been published; for the bronze in the National Museum see Ghosh, III. Pl. 343 B.
13 Scholarly opinion, however, has always assumed that the British Museum sculpture represents the Brahmanical Sarasvati.
14. Guide to the Archaeological Museum in Gwalior ( Gwalior, N.d. ), Pl. XII b; two unpublished sculptures from Hinglajagarh in the Indore Museum: N.K. Bhattasali, Iconography of Buddhist and Brahmanical Sculptures in the Dacca Museum (reprinted New Delhi 1972), Pl. LXIII.
15 One of the two Pallu sculptures is published in Gosh, III, Pl. 337.
16 For instance T.A. Gopinath Rao, Elements of Hindu Iconography 1/2 (reprinted Delhi 1968), Pl. CXV from Bagali in Karnataka.
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17 Haridas Bhattacharyya, "Sarasvati the Goddess of learning", in Commemorative
Essays Presented to Professor K. B. Pathak (Poona 1934), p. 50.
18 Vincent Smith, The Jaina Stupa and other Antiquities of Mathura (reprinted Varanasi 1969), Pl. XCIX.
19 A. C. Mittal, The Inscriptions of Imperial Paramāras (Ahmedabad. 1979), pp. 69-70, lists these attempts, to which add Dikshit, p. xiv, fn. 1.
20 Mittal, Index s. v. for inscriptional references.
LIST OF FIGURES
So-called Vagdevī ( properly, yakshi Ambikā) in the British Museum. V. S. 1091 or 1034-35 A, D.
2. Detail showing the elephant goad in Ambika's hand.
3. Detail of the figures on Ambika's left. 4. Detail of the figures on Ambika's right. 5. The pedestal inscription.
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