Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.50

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The first criterion is broad enough to include all the images, Brāhmaṇa, Baudha and Jain. The Second one may be comprehended into the five principal classes of gods—Brāhma, Vaiṣṇava, Śaiva, Saura, Gāṇapatya, etc. The Śakti forms, i. e. the female images of the consorts of the gods, can be coupled with their companion gods. As regards the Buddhist and Jain images, they are nothing but an improvisation or extemporovisation of the Brahmanical deities. They have sprung up from the same channel, but with a coloured water (except the Buddha image) that colour being the Yab yum of the Tibetan Tāntricism. As regard the different varieties of Buddha's images they can very easily be included in Daśāvatara images of Viṣṇu. So is the case with the Jina images also.