Height: 36.00 in
Width: 48.00 in
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This painting, reproducing in a different medium and with different dimensions an early masterpiece, a miniature, comprising part of a Tantrika Devi series of around 1660-65 from Basohli, the pioneer centre of Pahari art school and trend-setter for the entire art activity of the hill states, represents Varahi, one of the Sapta-Matrikas Seven Mothers. For those in Shakta line, Varahi manifests Varahas cosmic energy and his operative force, and whatever his exploits, Varahi is his key to success. Along with other Matrikas Varahi has an early origin. At their earliest Matrikas are alluded to in the great epic Mahabharata, though the concerned part of the text is widely believed to be a later addition of about the first century AD. In early sources the number of Matrikas varies from seven to sixteen, and sometimes even more, but subsequently it standardized as seven and so their Sapta-Matrikas epithet. As denote allusions made to them, their shrines, and the worship-rites offered to them, in literary writings Bhasas Charudatta, Shudrakas Mracchakatika, or Banabhattas Harsha-Charita, Matrikas were well established deities by around fourth-fifth centuries. In sculptures Matrikas begin having a noticeable presence from the seventh-eighth century. Many of the seventh-eighth century temples, in Central India in special, have Sapta-Matrika panels over their main entrances just above the lintel carrying dwaja-deity icon mini image of the deity that enshrines the sanctum sanctorum. As such, Matrikas seem to have been known to masses much before many of the Puranas came into existence. The Puranic vision of their emergence is however different. The version which is most relied on comes from the Devi-Mahatmya in the Markandeya Purana. As Devi-Mahatmya has it in its third Canto, when the Great G
Varahi: One of the Sapta-Matrikas - Oil on Canvas
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