In Jaina religious art, a yakshi (nature spirit) who is an attendant of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara. Her iconographical attributes include her vahana (mount), a lion.
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In Jaina religious art, a yakshi (nature spirit) who is an attendant of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara. Her iconographical attributes include her vahana (mount), a lion.
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