འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་རྩ་བའ་རྒྱད 393

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“This yakṣiṇī,²⁶⁵³ [also] called Andhārasundarī,²⁶⁵⁴ is surrounded by many hundreds²⁶⁵⁵ of thousands of yakṣiṇīs. When accomplished as an object of practice by any practitioner, she dispatches, every single day, one yakṣiṇī-servant for each of them. She has a retinue of many ministers, all of them yakṣiṇīs, among whom she is distinguished by her great miraculous power and her cover of darkness. As the ritual procedure is the same for all of them,²⁶⁵⁶ could one see any of them? It is not possible to see her.

“Among the yakṣiṇīs, famous throughout the world,
There is also Andhāravāsinī,
Endowed with great miraculous power,
Guhāvāsinī, Naravīrā, Yakṣakumārī,²⁶⁵⁷

“Vadhūyakṣiṇī, Manojñā,
And the seventh, Surasundarī.
These seven yakṣiṇīs perform
Acts of kindness for sentient beings.

“They wander around this world
And the entire earth.
Within a brief moment,
They can ascend to the world of the gods.²⁶⁵⁸

“Being endowed with great miraculous powers,
They take part in battles between the gods and the daityas.
They are virtuous, compassionate, and lovingly tender
Toward beings for whom they are objects of desire.

“They wander upon the earth,
Intent upon helping sentient beings.
Nothing is difficult for them to accomplish,
And they do a splendid job with every task.
The Bodhisattva taught [their rites]
To bring enjoyment to beings.

“The mantra of Guhāvāsinī is:

“ Oṁ Guhilā, Guhāmati,²⁶⁵⁹ Guhāvāsinī! Please come, O blessed one, close to me! Remember your samaya! Svāhā! ²⁶⁶⁰

“One should light a fire with sticks of cutch wood and offer into it, at the three junctions of the day for one month, one thousand and eight oblations of beautyberry flowers smeared with ghee. This constitutes the preliminary practice.

“Afterward, one should begin the formal practice. Using uncontaminated paints, a new brush, and a new paint container, one should first draw the king of mountains, Mount Sumeru, either on a tablet, or a piece of cloth, or a wall. It has four slopes and four lofty peaks and is surrounded by a range of seven mountains. At the outer edge of these mountains, one should draw a cave that is situated in a mountainside.