Agnipani

[4] The Yakshas are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness,[5][6] and were the object of popular worship.

[9] In the statue, Agni has a flame-shaped "aureole" with incised tongues of flames behind his turbanned head, and he hold a water flask in the left hand, some fragments of which remain.

Some parallels with the contemporary Mudgarpani statue, probably manufactured and dedicated by the same person, also helped interpretation: Right side: (a)[m](a)ty[e]na pratihāre- [na]....jayaghoṣena [bh](aga)[v](a)to ā[gn]isa pra[t]i[m](ā) Left side: [ka]ritā p[rī]yaṃtāṃ[a]ga[ya] "An image of the Holy One Agni was caused to be made by Jayghosa, the minister in charge of the gate-keepers (?)

[8] Describing the drapery of one of these statues, John Boardman writes: "It has no local antecedents and looks most like a Greek Late Archaic mannerism", and suggests it is possibly derived from the Hellenistic art of nearby Bactria where this design is known.

[13] In the production of colossal Yaksha statues carved in the round, which can be found in several locations in northern India, the art of Mathura is considered as the most advanced in quality and quantity during this period.