Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c8.s1.2

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I—DIVINITIES—*Śrī Lakshmī, Yaksha, Nāga, Sūrya, Chandra, Vāmana-Virāṭ* (dwarf and giant), *Ardhanārīśvara, Kumāra, Gaṇapati, Ambikā, Tryambaka* (three-eyed God), *Paśupati* (Lord of Paśus), *Mātṛkā* (One Universal Mother), *Dvimātā, Sapta-mātaraḥ* (Seven Mothers), *Sapta-svasāraḥ* (Seven Sisters), *Daśamātaraḥ* (Ten Mothers), *Tisraḥ Devī* (Three Goddesses, Three Mothers as *Ambā-Ambikā-Ambālikā*), *Samudra*, (Ocean), *Hiraṇyagarbha* (the Golden Egg, *Haimāṇḍa*), *Nārāyaṇa* (Deity of the Cosmic Ocean), *Daksha* (Goat-headed deity of *Yajña*), *Asura, Agni* (Fire), *Sahasrāksha* (thousand-eyed Deity (cf. Thousand-eyed Buddha figures on *thaṅkas*), *Nritu* (Dancer of the *Tāṇḍava*), *Gandharva-Apsaras, Brahma* (same as Yaksha), *Vasus, Rudras, Ādityas, Aśvins* (horse-headed Twin Deities, cf. Dioscuri), *Gaṇa-Devatā* (Host-Deities), *Pramathas, Saptarshi* (Seven Sages), *Aṣṭamūrti Siva, Kumbhamushka* (ithyphallic gnomes, same as *Kumbhāṇḍa*, AV. 11.9.17), *Chaturdamshṭra* (Four-tusked demons, AV. 11.9.17), Nārada (the archetypal Sage of music and movement, AV. 12.4.24), Keśinī (Woman with dioshevelled hair, AV. 12.5.45, cf. the nude goddesses Koṭṭavī and Kālikā), Rudra-Mahādeva, Viṣṇu, Yama, Viśvarūpā Nārī (AV. 14.2.32, same as Śatarūpā, wife of Kaśyapa), Agni-Soma (Fire and Water principles, cf. Hot and Cold streams for Buddha's bath), etc.