. The archaeological survey of Mayurabhanja. ore Subrahmanya, whose colour is redlike vermilion, whose face is beautiful as a moon,who is decorated with Keijura, necklace andother ornaments, who offers (to devotees) thehappiness of heaven, who holds in his threehands a lotus, a Qakti and a cock respectivelyand gives abhaija (protection from fear) with hisfourth hand, whose body is painted with redcolour, who wears a red cloth and who is about todestroy all objects of fear for those who bowdown to him.^ An image of Subrahraam^a of the above typehas been found at Maninage^vara. (Fig. 7). We find
. The archaeological survey of Mayurabhanja. ore Subrahmanya, whose colour is redlike vermilion, whose face is beautiful as a moon,who is decorated with Keijura, necklace andother ornaments, who offers (to devotees) thehappiness of heaven, who holds in his threehands a lotus, a Qakti and a cock respectivelyand gives abhaija (protection from fear) with hisfourth hand, whose body is painted with redcolour, who wears a red cloth and who is about todestroy all objects of fear for those who bowdown to him.^ An image of Subrahraam^a of the above typehas been found at Maninage^vara. (Fig. 7). We find in the Bhavisya Purana that Viuayakaused to be worshipped in the temple of it is not unreasonable to infer that theworship of Viuayaka in the form of an imagewas also prevalent among the Saura Magas invery ancient times and afterwards adopted bythe Hindus and Maliayana Buddhists alike. InNepal, Buddhists as w^ell as Hindus, evenat the present day, invoke the god Viuayaka atthe commencement of all work in order to attain ^
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