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{{Infobox artifact
|name = Saptarishi Tila statue
|image = Kambojika statue Mathura.jpg
|image_caption = Female Statue possibly representing Kambojika, the Chief Queen of Mahakshatrapa Rajula. Found in the Saptarishi Mound, the same mound where the Mathura lion capital was found. Circa 1st century CE. [http://hi.brajdiscovery.org/images/0/0f/Kambijika-Mix-1.jpg Other angles].
|material = Blue schist
|size = life-size
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|period = 1st century CE
|place = Saptarishi Mound, [[Mathura]], [[India]].
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|location = [[Mathura Museum]]
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The '''Saptarishi Tila statue''', also called the '''Kambojika statue''',<ref>See Mathura Museum notice to the statue</ref> is a statue of a woman found in the Saptarishi mound ("Saptarishi Tila") in [[Mathura]]. The statue is life-size and is now in the [[Mathura Museum]]. The statue was discovered by [[Bhagawanlal Indraji]], at the same time and place as another important artifact, the [[Mathura lion capital]], dated to the beginning of the 1st century CE.<ref name="Banerjee">Hellenism in Ancient India, by Gauranga Nath Banerjee [https://books.google.com/books?id=mCtKn4J1n38C&pg=PA89 p.89]</ref>

The statue wears a sleeved blouse, a full skirt, and a torque and necklace like those of the Gandharan [[Bodhisattvas]].<ref name="Rosenfield"/>

==Origin==
The statue is an example of the [[Greco-Buddhist art]] of [[Gandhara]].<ref name="Banerjee"/> It is made of the blue schist of Gandhara, and closely follows its style.<ref name="Rosenfield">The Dynastic art of the Kushans, John Rosenfiled, University of California Press, p.xiv</ref> Its excavation in Mathura shows that the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara was finding its way in [[Mathura]], thereby potentially influencing local art. This statue demonstrates the close ties between the art of Gandhara and the art of Mathura.<ref name="Rosenfield"/> This has implications regarding the time and place of the creation of the first [[Buddha]] images. The datation of the statue also is significant. It is regularly presented as a piece of art of the 1st century CE.<ref>Mathura Museum notice</ref>

==Interpretation==
===Kamuia, Queen of Rajuvula===
Since the statue was found in the same mound as the [[Mathura lion capital]], many authors have interpreted it as being a statue of the First Queen of [[Rajuvula]], Kamuia Ayasa, also called Kambojika.<ref name="Rosenfield"/> This is also the interpretation of the Mathura Museum, the notice of which says she is "probably Kambojika, the Chief Queen of Rajuvula".<ref>Mathura Museum notice</ref> According to Rosenfield, in order for it to be a statue of Kamuia Ayasa, it would have had to be made in the early 1st century CE, which is unlikely, given our knowledge of Gandharan statuary, generally dated to the 2nd century at the earliest.<ref name="Rosenfield"/>

===Hariti===
Other authors interpret the statue of the goddess [[Hariti]].<ref name="Rosenfield"/><ref>Aspects of Indian Art: Papers Presented in a Symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October, 1970, Brill Archive, 1972, p.38</ref>

A remain of a child hand can be seen on the left arms, which supports the identification of the statue as Hariti.<ref name="Rosenfield"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto;" align="center" colspan=1 cellpadding="3" style="font-size: 80%; width: 100%;"
|align="center" colspan=1 style="background:#F4A460; font-size: 100%;"| '''Hariti statues from Gandhara'''
|-
|<gallery mode="packed" heights=150px>
File:The Buddhist Goddess Hariti with Children LACMA M.78.105 (1 of 6).jpg|Hariti with children (front). 1st BCE, Gandhara.
File:The Buddhist Goddess Hariti with Children LACMA M.78.105 (6 of 6).jpg|Hariti with children (back). 1st BCE, Gandhara.
File:Rondel with the Goddess Hariti.Met.jpg|Rondel with the Goddess Hariti, 1st century CE.
File:Hariti and Panchika - Schist - ca 2nd Century CE - Gandhara - Jamalgarhi - ACCN G 8 - Indian Museum - Kolkata 2016-03-06 1685.JPG|Hariti and Panchika, c. 2nd Century CE - Gandhara
File:GoddessHaririWithBaby.jpg|Goddess Hariti with baby.
File:PharroAndArdoxsho.jpg|Pharo and Ardoxsho, Gandhara.
File:Hariti (Gandhara).jpg|Hariti (Gandhara).
</gallery>
|}

==See also==
*[[Kambojas]]

==References==
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[[Category:Mathura art]]
[[Category:Indian Buddhist sculpture]]
[[Category:Statues in India]]
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