Studies in Indian Art c12.s13.67
Studies in Indian Art c12.s13.67
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c12.s13.67
SAPTA-MĀTṚIKĀ. In the Kushāṇa period the worship of the female goddess of the form of Reality as so many goddesses found its most tangible expression as the sculptures representing a group of the Sapta-Mātṛikās (Seven Divine Mothers), Brahmāṇī, Vaishṇavī, Ambikā-Pārvatī, Indrāṇī, Kaumārī, Vārāhī, Nārasimhī, and Chāmuṇḍā.¹