In her four hands, she holds two lotuses and makes the signs of granting boons and giving assurance.

She is bent down due to the weight of her large breasts, and in her hands, she holds two lotuses and two bunches of rice shoots.

Her relationship with the lotus suggests that she exists in a state of refinement that transcends the material world, and yet is rooted in it.

She is also depicted to be a more fearsome goddess who is to be reckoned in her own right, some of her epithets in Tantric traditions including Bhima (terrible), Kalaratri (black night), and Tamasi (darkness), indicating that she is not reliant on him for his preservation and can fight evil with her own powers.

In her Mahavidya context, she is also rarely associated with incarnations of Lakshmi such as Sita and Rukmini, though she is identified as two of the Saptamatrikas who are also forms associated with Vishnu, Varahi, and Vaishnavi.