འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་རྩ་བའ་རྒྱད 392

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“The ritual procedure of the [last three] yakṣiṇīs is the same as before.

“The mantra of Tamasundarī is:

“ Oṁ ghuṇu!²⁶⁴⁶ Ghuṇu, ghuṇu, O secret one! Come, come, O guhyakī! Svāhā! ²⁶⁴⁷

“As for her practice, no painting of her is prescribed. One should start during a full moon, wearing clean clothes and being clean oneself, in a secluded place….²⁶⁴⁸ One should firmly shut the door and recite her vidyā ten thousand times in complete and utter darkness. This constitutes the preliminary practice.

“Afterward, one should begin the formal practice. One should start during a full moon and perform the rite until the next full moon, doing it alone at night in an isolated and hidden place, when it is time to sleep and one is in bed with the door closed, in complete and utter darkness. One should blend closed lotus buds and vānapuṣpa²⁶⁴⁹ with white mustard oil and rub it onto one’s hands and feet. One should incant the right arm²⁶⁵⁰ one hundred and eight times and go to sleep in silence.²⁶⁵¹ If one does this every day until the next full moon, then Tamasundarī will arrive for certain at midnight.

“When she arrives, one should not engage her in conversation but make love to her in silence. If, within six months, she starts conversing, one should join in. From then on she will be an accomplished object of the practice, becoming one’s wife who grants every desire and whose soft touch gives divine pleasure. She will perform all tasks even when she is out of sight and will also procure the essential elixir of longevity.

“Taking the practitioner upon her back, she will carry him even to the top of Mount Sumeru. At night, she will take him all the way around Jambūdvīpa. She will crush one’s enemies, even at a distance of one hundred leagues. Whatever she is ordered to do will turn out well, except for sexual advances on other women. This rule applies to all the yakṣiṇīs. One must not approach other women but cohabit only with them. If one goes to other women, they will cause death or insanity.²⁶⁵²