Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c26.14

v4.c26.14

The *Kumāra-tantra* mentions a much larger number of *parivāra-dēvatās*; eight, twelve, sixteen or thirty-two *dēvatas* are prescribed in it. If eight *dēvatas* are to be set up, we are told that on the east, facing the deity, should be the figure of an elephant that on the south-east, Śāsta; in the south, Brahmā; on the south-west, the Sapta-mātṛkās; on the west, Jyēṣṭhā; on the north-west Durgā; on the north, Kṣētrapa and on the north-east, Sumitraka. The names of the *parivāra-dēvatas* * of the groups of twelve, etc., are given in the foot-note below.