The University of Nalanda c12.57

c12.57

The *Guide* merely calls the figure "18 armed Tārā".¹ But this is not enough from iconographical point of view. The number of arms is indeed very peculiar and we fail to identify or find a corresponding *Sādhana* referred to by Battacharyya in his *Buddhist Iconography*. If there were a book in any of the hands then that symbol coupled with the *Dharmacakra-mudrā* would have warranted us to call it a special figure of Prajñāpāramitā.² Can it be a figure of Mahā Śrī Tārā?