Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.17

c8.s2.17

Finally in this class of images we find Lokeśvara with a multiplicity of hands. In the Sādhanas we find the name of Māyājālakram-āryāvalokiteśvara who has five heads and twelve hands.⁷ The Indian Museum collection contains two Lokeśvara images with twelve hands. In both of them we find that there is only one head, and the presence of Amitābha on it signifies that the image belongs to the genus Lokeśvara. No particular Sādhana can be applied to any of these two images. In the first one the following attributes are to be seen:—