Agnipani

"Agnipani" Yaksha
Mathura, 100 BCE
"Agnipani" Yaksha ("Fire-holder"), 100 BCE[1] Mathura Museum, GMM 87.146

Agnipani was a Yaksha deity in ancient India. His name means "Agni-holder", "Agni" being the fire, for which the later god Agni is well known.[2] The Mathura Museum describes his statue as "Agnipani Yaksha",[3] but Sonya Rhie Quintanilla simply identifies the statue as that of the Vedic God Agni.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference SRQAgni was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie (2007). History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE. BRILL. p. 84. ISBN 978-90-04-15537-4.
  3. ^ Mathura Museum notice