Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c17.24
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c17.24
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c17.24
Another elastic symbol was the Śrīvatsa, literally ‘Darling Babe of Śrī;’ as a mother goddess Śrī often carried in her arms a babe of conventionalised form with a squat torso, short neck and undigitated arms and legs, being a crude representation of a child. This became part of the aṭṭhamaṅgala signs and in Jaina iconography found an invariable place on the chest of the Arhats. Later on with Vishṇu.