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the Vaisnavas have lost their ground specially in the societies of
pro-Tantric regions and they almost to retreat to an alien stand.
So a natural sentiment was there to coup themselves with the
popular current of the societies of that time. Using the same
medium, the Vaisnavas also tried to introduced themselves with
some mystic element where they emphasized on Vaisnava Sakti.
Vaikuntha Vaisnavi is to be an outcome of this sentiment of the
Vaisnava sect. The myth relating to the origin of this deity stated
that 144 Lord Krishna, during the time of his Sisulila when
punishing Kaliyanaga for his work, his wives prayed Krishna in
the name of Rama, Pradiyumna, and Aniruddha to excuse him.
All of them are the other name of Vasudeva. This to have
germinated the concept of Vishnu Chaturmurti with four arms, four
faces, the front face is of a human, other two faces on the two side
are of lion and boar while the fourth one is hidden. The
145 Vishnudharmottara Purana' have further stated that Vaikuntha
in the human form should be made of four faces or the god of four
aspects. Of the central faces-one is in human countenance and
other remain hidden; while the two other faces of the central two
are of a lion head, acknowledging the aspect of knowledge, and of
a boar, referring to Pradiyumna, symbolising human power. This
led to the emergence of the concept of Vaikuntha Vaisnava and
his female counter part Vaikuntha Vaisnavi. The Tantric text the
Jayadrathayamala, a stream of the Brahmayamala have provided
a beautiful description of an independent image mother Vaisnavi
and accordingly, she should be a four handed deity with a charming
144. Dutta, M. : Op-cit, 1990, p.109.
145. Sastri, S.N. Ghoshal Op-cit, 1983, p.186.