The four-armed goddess is seated with legs crossed in vajraparyankasana and holding mala rosary beads and a sutra in her upper hands, with her principal hands in dharmachakra mudra.  She wears a regal crown and sumptuous gem-set jewelry, a separately-made halo attached behind.  A billowing scarf is draped over her shoulders.

Prajnaparamita, the name for both a specific text and the personification of that text, represents the embodiment of the perfect wisdom of all buddhas as indicated by her Sanskrit name, which translates as “Perfection of Wisdom.”  One of her main attributes is the book, which is depicted as a long rectangular manuscript of palm leaves and represents the Prajnaparamita text.  She is also known as the “Mother of all Buddhas.”  Prajnaparamita is the personification of Buddhist wisdom in divine female form, manifest in the eponymous ‘Perfection of Wisdom’ Prajnaparamita sutra. Although the sutra is ubiquitous in the performance of Buddhist studies and meditation practice in the Himalayan region, Nepalese sculptural representations of the deity are extremely rare, compare an example in a private collection in Jan van Alphen, Cast for Eternity, Antwerp, 2005, p. 119, cat. 33.  Also compare the modelling, physiognomy, and jewelry style with a Nepalese Manjushri and Prajna dated 1571 in Pratapaditya Pal, The Arts of Nepal: Sculpture, Leiden/Köln, 1974, pl. 40, and another dated 1575 in the Norton Simon Museum, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art from the Himalayas & China, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 96-97, cat. 62.