Candra Yakshi

Candra Yakshi

She is carved on the middle face of a pillar, bearing the label Cada Yakshi; she stands under a Naga-tree (Mesua ferrea) entwining it with her left arm

and leg. In the left hand she holds a branch of the tree with flowers and leaves.’ by the right hand, she is bending the branch of the tree; her right foot is put straight on a pedestal. The pedestal carries a figure variously

identified as ‘a sheep or a ram with hind part of a fish’ or as a horse faced makara. The yakshi’s hair is beautifully decorated with different bands of

decorative designs.

She wears large square kundalas, necklaces, bangles, armlets, mekhala and anklets. An ornament with bead and reel design is worn by her in upavita fashion, and on her forehead appears a round tikuli with star

design. Her left upraised foot is on the head of her vahana.

Yakshi Sudasana

Yakshi Sudasana

In the relief, she stands on a fish-tailed makara with right foot firmly set on the mount and the left, raised, placed behind the right one. The index finger of her right hand is raised towards her head, while the left hand holds the antariya in the centre at the navel. She wears elaborate dress and ornament, particularly a

thick antariya different from others.

Cullakoka Yakshi

Cullakoka Yakshi

The scholar Barua has identified Cullakoka and Mahakoka with hunting goddess on the basis of a reference to a hunter, Koka, who is mentioned in the

Dhammapada Attthakatha.

Alakamanda yakshi

Alakamanda yakshi

The pillar bearing the so called Alakamanda, was at the village Bhatanwara; now it has been removed to Ramvan Museum

(Satna, M.P). She is bedecked with many additional ornaments, such as a jewelled veil falling on her forehead, and a heavily

ornamented tassel in place of the usual tassel of sari which is not shown. She holds a lotus bud in her raised right hand at her

breasts, which again makes her different from other yakshinis. Aparently she is a woman of authority and her vahana, a dwarf

carrying her, directly relates her to Kubera who alone has a dwarf as his mount. Below the yakshini’s legs and behind the nara-

vahana, there is the carving of a mountain, which confirms that she is probably connected to Uttarakuru in the Himalayas which

was the habitat of kubera.

The Mehrauli Yakshi

The Mehrauli Yakshi

She stands as a salabhanjika, under a tree clasping its trunk with her left arm and holding a branch with the other hand. She wears a torque, three necklaces, a six-

stranded mekhala and a gracefully carved ribbon carelessly dangling down her shoulders and fastened below the navel. All ornaments are distinctive; of the

necklaces, first carries a motif of two human head, the second a square pendant and the third, a round padaka with a floral motif. Her hair is done in dviveni style,

and her dhoti with its beautifully carved folds make the image beautiful.

Yakshi at Mathura Museum

Yakshi at Mathura Museum

This is now in the Sunga gallery of Mathura Museum. She is shown loaded with ornaments consisting of a torque, three necklaces, the first

one with a tatanka-cakra, ‘disc’, keyura, ‘wristlets’, mekhala and anklets. She stands crossed legged holding in front a ribbon which girdles her back. She wears a diaphanous antariya in spite of which her nudity is

clear. Her vahana is a grotesque dwarf with sankukarna.