The "Dhyana Mantra" of Raja-Matangi from the "Purashcharyarnava" describes Matangi as green in colour with the crescent moon upon her forehead. She has long hair, a smiling expression and intoxicated eyes, and wears a garland of kadamba flowers and various ornaments. She perspires a little around the face, which renders her even more beautiful. Below her navel are three horizontal folds of skin and a thin vertical line of fine hair. Seated on an altar and flanked by two parrots, she represents the 64 arts. The "Saradatilaka", adds to this description that Raja-Matangi plays the veena, wears conch-shell earrings and flower garlands, and has flower paintings adorning her forehead.She is also depicted wearing a garland of white lotus (here lotus signifies multicolored world creation), similar to Goddess Saraswati's iconography.