七摩怛里

saptamātṛ. The seven divine mothers, or personified energies of the principal deities; they are associated with the worship of the god Śiva, and attend on his son Skanda or Kārttikeya, to whom at first only seven Mātṛs were assigned, but in the later mythology an innumerable number, who are sometimes represented as having displaced the original divine mothers M.W. Their names are given as

(1) Cāmuṇḍā [lang id =1028]遮文茶 or [lang id =1028]左問拏

(2) Gaurī[lang id =1028]嬌吠哩;

(3) Vaiṣṇavī [lang id =1028]吠瑟拏微

(4) Kaumārī [lang id =1028]嬌麼哩;

(5) Indrāṇī, Aindrī, or Māhendrī [lang id =1028]燕捺利 or [lang id =1028]印捺哩;

(6) Raudrī [lang id =1028]勞捺哩; and

(7) Vārāhī [lang id =1028]末羅呬弭; cf. [lang id =1028]七母天.