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The concept of Taishaku-ten! $ consort is not unknown in Japanese or Chinese iconography. In Japan the consort of Sakra-Indra is called Taishaku-Nyo. In India the text Visnudharmottara provides descriptions of Sakra-Indra's consort, who is mentioned in the text as Sachi. She is portrayed as seated on the left of Indra, She has four arms. She is also called Indrani. Although we have not so far come across sculptural representations of Sakrani or Taishaku-Nyo, she is, however, adequately represented in the Mandaras as is evident from the Chinese Tripitaka. One such representation as contained in the Tripitaka is to be found in the Dai-taizo-dai-mandara (Mahakaruna garbha-mandala). In the above mandara, Sakrani or Taishaku-Nyo is depicted as seated 鈻� in a semi cross-legged position on a round pedestal. She holds the stalk of a lotus bud in her right hand. Her left hand, which is held near her navel, exhibits a mudra by pointing the fore-finger towards earth. Her partly folded thumb is held upward while her middle finger touches the thumb. The fingers of Sakrani and Brahmani are placed side by side in this mandara.