[1] The two oldest known image are: Yaksha Manibhadra coming from Parkham near Mathura, datable to period 200 BCE – 50 BC[2] The statue is 2.59 meters high.

On stylistic grounds and paleographical analysis of the inscription, the statue is datable to the middle of the 2nd century BCE.

Describing a similar statue, John Boardman writes: "It has no local antecedents and looks most like a Greek Late Archaic mannerism".

Narada wanted to teach the brothers a lesson and cursed them to be turned into trees and only to be liberated by Vishnu's avatar.

During the Dvapara Yuga, an infant Krishna was tied to a mortar by his mother, Yashoda, as a punishment for eating dirt.

Another figure with the same name is mentioned to be an avatar of Shiva which he called when he was angry and summoned for warfare.

Manibhadra is also a god of sea-farers especially merchants venturing out in the sea for business in faraway lands.

[16] His image can take many forms, including unshaped rocks, however in the most common representation, he is shown with a multi-tusked elephant Airavata.