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(B) Dig (1) Sangraha. 4-armed; Holds-Soake; (11) Saroddhara, Tilakam & Yantra-pūjai Mt Lion; Bears-Snake (Number of hands aro not montioned.)
(14) ACCHUPTA or ACYUTA (A) Svet (1) Caturvith : Mt. Horse; Bears-Sword, Bow (1) Stotra & Acara Mt Horse; Holds- Bow, Shield, Sword, Arrow; (111) Nirvana Mt Horse; Wields-Sword, Arrow, Shield, Snake; (iv) Mantra Sword, Asipatra, Arrow, Shield
(B) Dig. (1) samgraha 4-armed; It merely refers to Vajra symbol; (11) Saroddhara, Tilakam & Yantra-pāja Mt. Horse; Holds--white sword.
(15) MANAST (A) Svet 6) Caturvin Holds Burning Heti, (II) Stotra. Bears Vajra alone, (11) Nirvan : Mt Swan, Wields--Varada, Vajra, Rosary, Vajra, (iv) Acara Mtswan, Carries-- Vajra, Varada, (v) Mantra : Mt. Swan, Betrays–Trident, Rosary.
(B) Dig. All the works visualize her as being represented with heads folded in Namaskara-mudra.
(16) MAHĀMĀNAST-(A) Svet (1) Caturvin Mt. Lion; Holds-Sword, Shield, Jewel, Kundika, (11) Stotra Mt Lion, Boars-Sword, (lii) Nirvana & Mantra Mt Lion, Wields—Varada Abhaya, Sword Pitcher, Shield; (lv) Acara, Mt. Crocodle, Carries--Sword, Shield, Jewel Varada
(B) Dig. (1) Samgraha . Sho merely shows Prañgmamudra, (l) Suroddhara & Tilakam Mt. Swan; Holds—Varada, Rosary Goad, Garlatid
The Nirvaņakalika envisages a special mudra for each of the sixteen Mahavidyās. These mudras suggest the chief identifying symbols of the 16 Mabavidyas The 16 mudrās are as follows.-(1) Sankha (2) Sakti (3) Siakhala. (4) Vajra, (5) Cakra, (6) Padma, (7) Gada (8) Ghanta, (9) Kámándalu (10) Parašu, (11) Parašu (of another mode), (12) Vřkşa, (13) Sarpa, (14) Khadga, (15) Jyalana, (16) Śr-Mani.
Footnotes
1 Consult, Tiwari, Maruti Nandan Prasad, 'The Iconography of the Sixteen Jaina
Mah&vidayas as Represented in the ceiling of the Santinatha Temple at Kumbhátia,
North Gujarat', Sanibodhi, Vol. 2, No. 3, Oct 1973, P 15. 2. IIowever. U P. Shah in his paper on the Jalna Mahavidyas has not referred to
this earliest known set It is to be noted that it is not only the soiltary instance of the collective representation of the Sıxteen Mahavidyās at Kumbháid but also
perhaps In Gujarat 3 Elsewhere abbreviated as Svet. 4 Elsewhere abbreviated as Mt 5 Elsewhere abbreviated au Dig. 6 Conguit, Shah, U P. 'Iconography of the Sixteen Jaina Mahavidys', Jour Indian
Society of Oriental Ari, Vol, XV, 1947, p. 168. Sambodhi 5.2-3
