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== Picture gallery == <gallery> File:Statues of Vaishnavi, Varahi, Indrani and Camunda, National Museum, New Delhi.jpg|Shaktism is a Goddess-centric tradition of Hinduism. Relief statues of [[Vaishnavi (Matrika goddess)|Vaishnavi]], [[Varahi]], [[Indrani]] and [[Chamunda]] File:Ardhanari.jpg|In Shakta theology, the female and male are interdependent realities, represented with [[Ardhanarishvara]] icon. Left: A 5th century art work representing this idea at the [[Elephanta Caves]]; Right: a painting of Ardhanarishvara. File:Yakshini (cropped).jpg|Yakshini wearing [[dhoti]] wrap and elaborate necklace, Mauryan period. File:Mehrauli Yakshi, 150 BCE, Mathura.jpg|The "Mehrauli Yakshi", dated to 150 BCE, Mathura. File:Mudgarpani Yaksha, Mathura, 100 BCE.jpg|[[Mudgarpani|Mudgarpani Yaksha]], 100 BCE. File:Yaksha Manibhadra - Parkham Mathura circa 150 BCE.jpg|[[Parkham Yaksha]], 150 BCE. File:Door Desavatara Deogarh.jpg|Females statues wearing drapes are depicted at [[Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh|Dashavatara Temple]]. File:In Welcome of Buddha - ACCN 34-2542 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 5941.JPG|Relief depicting men in [[antriya]] and [[uttariya]], 1st century CE. File:Xerxes Hidush warrior 480 BCE.jpg|''[[Hindush]]'' soldier, circa 480 BCE. He wears a [[Dhoti]] and a turban. Tomb of [[Xerxes I]]. File:Mithuna, Nachna, Parvati-Tempel 2.jpg|Male and female statues wearing drapes at [[Nachna Hindu temples]]. File:Mattei Athena Louvre Ma530 n2.jpg|So-called β[[Mattei Athena]]β. Marble, Roman copy from the 1st century BC/AD after a Greek original of the 4th century BC, attributed to Cephisodotos or Euphranor. Related to the bronze [[Piraeus Athena]]. File:Pergamonaltarathena.jpg|Relief of Athena and [[Nike (mythology)|Nike]] slaying the Gigante [[Alcyoneus|Alkyoneus]] (?) from the Gigantomachy Frieze on the [[Pergamon Altar]] (early second century BC) File:Peplos scene BM EV.JPG|A new ''[[peplos]]'' was woven for [[Athena|the patron of craft and weaving]] and ceremonially brought to dress her [[cult image]] ([[British Museum]]). File:L'Arringatore.jpg|''[[The Orator]]'', c. 100 BC, an Etrusco-Roman bronze statue depicting Aule Metele (Latin: Aulus Metellus), an Etruscan man wearing a Roman [[toga]] while engaged in [[rhetoric]]; the statue features an inscription in the [[Etruscan alphabet]] File:Torso femenino romano - Iponuba (M.A.N.) 01.jpg|Roman marble torso from the 1st century AD, showing a woman's clothing File:Ipogeo di via livenza, diana cacciatrice.jpg|[[Diana (mythology)|The goddess Diana]] hunting in the forest with a bow, and wearing the high-laced open "Hellenistic shoe-boots" associated with deities, and some images of very high status Romans. From a fresco in the [[Via Livenza Hypogeum]], Rome, c. 350 AD File:MΓ©nade danzante, Casa del Naviglio, Pompeya.jpg|A [[maenad]] wearing a [[silk]] gown, a Roman fresco from the [[Casa del Naviglio]] in [[Pompeii]], 1st century AD File:The Buddha attended by Indra at Indrasala Cave, Mathura 50-100 CE.jpg|Uttariya and Antriya both are visible. File:Buddha in Abhaya Mudra - Circa 2nd Century CE - ACCN 00-A-4 - Government Museum - Mathura.jpg|A Mathura standing Buddha in "Samghati" monastic dress, circa 2nd century CE, [[Mathura Museum]] File:Indian Museum Sculpture - Subjugation of Nalagiri, 2c, Mathura (9220813720).jpg|The Buddha in checkered monastic dress in the "Subjugation of Nalagiri", [[Bhutesvara Yakshis]], 2nd century CE, Mathura. File:Buddha Refuses Anupama - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 5938.JPG|"Buddha Refuses Anupama", late Kushan File:Bodhisattva Holding Lotus Flowers - Kushan Period - Govind Nagar - ACCN 76-38 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-23 5730.JPG|Bodhisattva [[Avalokitesvara]] holding lotus flower File:Goat-headed God Naigamesha Presiding Deity of Childbirth among Ancient Jainas - ACCN 15-1115 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 6067.JPG|[[Naigamesha]] Jain god of Childbirth, 1st-3rd century CE. </gallery>
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