PadmavatiDevi 5inch

Padm?vat? is the protective goddess or ??sana dev? (????????) of P?r?van?tha (phonetic: Parshwanath), the twenty-third Jaint?rth??kara, complimenting Parshwa yaksha, the shasan deva.^[1]

There is another pair of souls of a n?ga and n?gin? who were saved by Parshwanath while being burnt alive in a log of wood by the tapas kamath, and who were subsequently reborn as Indra (Dharanendra in particular) and Padmavati (different from sashan devi) after their death.^[2] According to the Jain tradition, Padmavati and her husband Dharanendra protected Lord Parshvanatha when he was harassed by Meghmali