Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s3.t3.14

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The Mīna-Mithuna, Deva Vimāna-gṛiha, Śrīvatsa, Vardhamāna, Triratna, Pushpadāma, Indra-Yashṭi or Vaijayantī and Pūrṇaghaṭa. The names had become popular as we find by its mention twice in the Aṅgavijjā of about the second-third century. During the Gupta period its possession was ardently desired by travellers both on land and sea and rich men. The number eight had become stereotyped since Bāṇa compares the eighteen islands encircling Bhāratavarsha to an Aṣṭhamaṅgalaka Mālā (aṣṭādaśadvīpāṣṭhamaṅgalakamālinī medinī, Harshacharita, ch. 6, p. 185).