Explore: Maṇibhadra (jaina Deity)

Maṇibhadra (Sanskrit: 'as excellent as a jewel') is one of the major yakshas. He was a popular deity in ancient India. Several well known images of yaksha

ISBN 978-0-691-05779-8. Shah, U. P. (September–December 1982). "Minor Jaina deities". Journal of the Oriental Institute. XXXII (1–2). Baroda: Oriental Institute

and medieval era temples of South Asia and Southeast Asia as guardian deities. The feminine form of the word is IAST: Yakṣī or Yakshini (Sanskrit: यक्षिणी

as the adhishthayikā (transl. protecting deity) of Achal Gaccha. She holds the same status that Maṇibhadra holds for Tapa Gaccha. Another legend that

"reverence for Vedas" as a marker for an Astika. He and other 1st millennium CE Jaina scholars defined Astika as one who "affirms there exists another world,

function as an artistic benchmark for in-the-round statues of the period. 1st Jaina Tirthankara Rishabhanatha torso - Circa 1st Century Four-fold Jain image

Presiding deities Adhishthayak Deva or presiding deities are protector deities of followers of each Gaccha. They are as follows: Manibhadra Vira of Tapa

the castle of Mir-li, killed, according to an oath that he had made, all Jaina-Niganthas and all followers of Kalachakra and restored all the caves for

city from the Nandas. The Mudrarakshasa of Visakhadutta as well as the Jaina work Parisishtaparvan talk of Chandragupta's alliance with the Himalayan