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- at Mathura. Several good sculptures of Kartikeya have been found His other forms like Kum膩ra, Visakha and Skanda also seem to have been quite popular during the Ausana period. The number of images increased in the Gupta period. The image of Kartikeya is shown as a two-armed figure, holding the right hand in Abhayamudra and Sakti in the left hand. Sometimes a 46 cock and sometimes a peacock are depicted as his vahanas.
His characteristic emblem Sakti, Kukkuta and sikhi seem to have
been associated from a very early period on the coins also. A
four-armed figure is found in Ellora relief and one of the left
hands holds a oock. T.A.G. Rao has reproduced various bronze
and stone images of Subramanya.
SARASVATT
Sarasvati is the goddess of learning and music. She is
referred to in the Rgveda as a river, on the banks of which
Vedic learning developed. She is also identified with speech
('Vag vai Sarasvati'). In the popular Hindu mythology she is
known as V盲gdevi (the goddess of speech). The Puranas gave her
an iconographical form. In the later mythology, she is
sometimes connected with Brahma (both as his daughter and as
his wife) and at other times with Vism as Pusti.
As is stated above in the description of the image of
Brahma, both the Agni and the Matsya Purana mention that the
image of Sarasvati and Savitri should be respectively at the
left and right sides of the Brahma's image. According to Matsya
Purana Chapter 261. 24, Brahmani should be made like Brahma