Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c11.s2.2

v1.c11.s2.2

each of them stands upon a *padmāsana*. The difference between any two of those images has to be made out by the way in which the *śaṅkha*, the *chakra*, the *gadā* and the *padma* are found distributed among their four hands. It is worthy of note that the number of possible permutations of four things taken four at a time is exactly twenty-four; and the order, in which the permutations of these four articles, among the four hands is to be observed, is in passing, as in a circle, from the upper right hand to the upper left hand, thence to the lower left hand, and from there lastly to the lower right hand. For example, that image of Vishṇu, which holds the *śaṅkha*, *chakra*, *gadā* and *padma* in the four hands in the order mentioned above, beginning from the upper right hand and ending with the lower right hand, is representative of Keśava; that is, in the upper right hand of Keśava the *śaṅkha* should be held; in the upper left, the *chakra*; in the lower left, the *gadā*; and in the lower right, the *padma*. In all these twenty-four cases the arrangement of these four things in relation to the four hands has to be observed in the same order. The following table based on the *Rūpamaṇḍana* gives the twenty-four names of Vishṇu and the corresponding arrangements of the four articles in the four hands in The provided image is a blank page, likely the verso of a title page or a flyleaf, with no printed text. Therefore, there is nothing to transcribe.