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A Paramāra Sculpture in the British Museum
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description. His fig. 22 illustrates an image of 1477 AD, 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, JII, PI. 343 B. 13 Scholarly opinion, however, has always assumed that the British Museum sculp
ture 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two unpublished sculptures from Hinglajagarh in the Indore Museum: N.K. Bhattasali, Isonography of Buddhist and Brahmanical Sculptures in the Dacca
Museum (reprinted New Delhi 972), PI. LXIII. 15 One of the two Pallu sculptures is published in Gosh, III, P1, 337. 16 For instance T.A. Gopinath Rao, Elements of Hindu Iconography 1/2 (reprinted!
Delhi 1968), Pl. CXV from Bagali in Karnataka 17 Haridas Bhattacharyya, "Sarasvati the Goddess of learning", in Commemorative
Essay's Presented to Professor K. B. Pathak (Poona 1934), p. 50. 18 Vincent Smith, The Jaina Stupa and other Antiquities of Mathura (reprinted Var
anasi 1969), PI, 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 1. So-called Vägdevi ( properly, yakshi Ambikā) in the British Mu
seum. V. S. 1091 or 1034-35 A. D. 2. Detail showing the elephant goad in Ambikā's hand. 3. Detail of the figures on Ambikā's left, 4. Detail of the figures on Ambikā's right. 5. The pedestal inscription.
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