In Hinduism, Daksha is one of the prajapati, the agents of creation, as well as a divine king-rishi. His iconography depicts him as a man with a stocky body and a handsome face or the head of a goat.
Two depictions of Daksha — One with ordinary human features (left) and another with a goat face (right)
A sculpture of the goat-faced Daksha with his wife.
Daksha (right) cursing Narada, an illustration from a 20th-century book.
Daksha insults Shiva while arguing with Sati.
Prajapati is a Vedic deity of Hinduism.
Prajapati with similar iconographical features associated with Brahma, a sculpture from Tamil Nadu
A Sculpture of Prajapati at Daksha Prajapati Temple, Banapur, Odisha
"An attempt to depict the creative activities of Prajapati", a steel engraving from the 1850s.