Agnipani

"Agnipani" Yaksha
Mathura, 100 BCE
"Agnipani" Yaksha ("Fire-holder"), 100 BCE 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. The Mathura Museum describes his statue as "Agnipani Yaksha", but Sonya Rhie Quintanilla simply identifies the statue as that of the Vedic God Agni.

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