Saptamatrikas

It shows one male deity and three mothers in the fragment of Saptamatrika sculpture. The male deity is Shiva as Veenadharamurthy in the beginning and three matrikas such as Brahmi, Maheswari, and Kuamari are only seen in the panel. All are two handed and wearing different ornaments. The rest of four mother goddesses are Varahi, Vaishnavi, Indrani and Chamunda who are missing in the panel. All the goddesses hold attributes and mount on vehicles accordingly of their gods. The saktis have their hands posed as varada-hasta. Vishnudharmottara, Markandeya, Varaha, Matsya etc., puranas and texts like Brihatsamhita mention about Saptamatrikas, from Kausambi, Gupta period, 6th century A.D