South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c8.s7.4

c8.s7.4

¹ Vasudeva described by Hemadri as a standing Vishnu figure of four arms, holds in the two upper hands the lotus and the conch and instead of having in the two lower, the weapons chakra (discus) and gada (club), he places the palms of these hands on the heads of two dwarf figures, one male and one female, holding chauris in their hands and looking at the face of the god These dwarf figures are stated to be the personified weapons chakra and gada; (see Mayurabhanja, fig. 16, on plate facing p. xl). The descriptions given by the same author of Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha—other standing forms of Vishnu—refer also to personified weapons.