| A unique
figure of the Buddhist goddess only available from
East Bengal is Parnashabari, ie the Tribal woman
wearing leaves as her garment. The pot-bellied deity
standing in pratyalidha position trampling down
two male figures representing diseases is three-headed
and eight-armed. She holds clockwise in her six
hands: elephant-goad, arrow, thunder-bolt, leaves,
bow and tarjani-mudra. She is accompanied by two
figures, one riding a donkey. Below on the pedestal
is shown a crawling figure with an elephant head
and holding sword and shield. The figure represents
no doubt an obstacle or vighna. On top five Transcendent
Buddhas are shown with Amoghasiddhi in the middle.
The two images, one from Vajrayogini and the other
from Naynanda, are now in BNM, and belong to c 11th
century. |
Picture-1: found from Vajrayogini
and belong to c 11th century |
