The depictions of the skanda-graha-mAtR^i-s in a bilingual manuscript in the chIna and Khotan shaka language from Dunhuang. The cat-faced graha-mAtR^i is identified as an emanation of mukhamaNDikA in the shaka language. The eagle-face one is like vinatA
Compare with the fragment of the famous Mathuran kaumara temple of the kuShANa age. One can see the mAtR^i there to establishing the continuity between central Asia and core Indian kaumAra iconography over a period of 600-700 years
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