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Markandeya Purana Padma Samhita (18.38-39) and Mayasisha Samhita (23.28) described Kalki as two armed, holding sword in his right hand and shield in his left. Mayasisha Samihita else-where (23.381) described four armed Kalki, carrying in the Upper hands coch and discuss (typical weavens of Visnu) and in the normed hands word and bow; His back is adorned by a quiever of arrows. Padmasmhita (18.38-39) also suggest a form of Kalki with four arms, as above, and sword and shield in the normal hands will assume the gestures of protection and boon bestowal. And other text provides in the normal left hand black coloured noose (pasam Krshnanibham) and in the corresponding right hand an inverted death dealing edged. All the texts prescribe that Kalki must be shown as riding a horse (hayarudham) and wearing garmens of leather (charma Vasana). According to Padma Samhita the sage Narada or Yajnavalkya is seen on his right side, as Kalki's officiating priest. Kalki is figured as engaged in a battle and always victorious (Yuddha virajitam) often Kalki is represented Symbolically by a horse on a back of wihc stands a sword bolt upright. Atternately He is a human figure with the horse's head. Apart from the Visnudharmottara Purana, Agni Purana and other Samhitas referred to above, the Naradiya Samhita is another source book in Sanskrit on iconography. Following are the verses from this text, descrbing iconographical features of the ten Vaisnava incarnations: