Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c9.45

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*Hēramba.* The figure of Hēramba is very different from all other figures of Vighnēśvara. It has five elephant heads, four facing the four cardinal points and the fifth placed above these so as to be looking upwards. It should be seated upon a powerful lion. It should carry the *pāśa*, *danta*, *akshamālā*, *paraśu*, and a three-headed *mudgara* in its hands; in another hand there should be a *mōdaka*, and two other hands have to be held in the *varada* and *abhaya* poses respectively. The colour of Hēramba has to be golden yellow.