Matr，閻羅王有七姊妹，稱為七母，梵曰摩怛里。大日經疏五曰：「七摩怛里，此譯云七母，皆女鬼也。」大日經義釋七曰：「凡有七姊妹也：一名左問拏，二名嬌吠哩，三名吠瑟拏微，四名嬌麼哩，五名印捺哩，六名勞捺哩，七名末羅呬弭。此七名皆是真言，今云莽怛哩毘藥，則七母通名也。」
saptamātṛ. The seven divine mothers, or personified energies of the principal deities; they are associated with the worship of the god Śiva, and attend on his son Skanda or Kārttikeya, to whom at first only seven Mātṛs were assigned, but in the later mythology an innumerable number, who are sometimes represented as having displaced the original divine mothers M.W. Their names are given as (1) Cāmuṇḍā 遮文茶 or 左問拏 (2) Gaurī嬌吠哩; (3) Vaiṣṇavī 吠瑟拏微 (4) Kaumārī 嬌麼哩; (5) Indrāṇī, Aindrī, or Māhendrī 燕捺利 or 印捺哩; (6) Raudrī 勞捺哩; and (7) Vārāhī 末羅呬弭; cf. 七母天.