The Development of Hindu Iconography c19.s2.6

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c19.s2.6

¹ They are Indra (east), Agni (south-east), Yama (south), Nairita (south-west), Varuṇa (west), Vāyu (north-west), Kubera (north), Īśāna (north-east), Brahmā (upper region) and Nāga (nether region). In this Śvetāmbara list of the Dikpālas, Brahmā and Nāga are additional ones, the Digambaras leaving them out in their list, and accepting the stereotyped list of the later Hindu mythology; B. C. Bhattacharya, Jaina Iconography, pp. 147-57.

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