The base of the statue bears a Sanskrit inscription which declares that the statue was commissioned and dedicated by a Vararūcī, who was intent on the Candranagarī and Vidyādharī branches of Jaina religion of Bhoja the king, and who had also dedicated a statue of Vagdevī and a triad of Jīnas (Jaina adepts). The museum’s webpages note that this is a statue of Ambika, a deity shared by Hindus and Jains. In the British Museum, there is a lovely statue of a female deity which is said to be from Dhar, the centre of our protagonists’ zone of action, but from many centuries before they appeared.
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