Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s7.66
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s7.66
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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-Māṭṛikās (Seven Divine Mothers), Brahmāṇī, Vaishṇavī, Ambikā-Parvatī, Indrāṇī, Kaumārī, Vārāhī, Nārasimhī, and Chāmuṇḍā.¹ [Fig. 184].