Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.75

c8.s2.75

The emanations of Vairochana and Amoghasiddhi are only females and we shall have to deal with them later on. Among the emanations of Ratnasambhava we find two forms of Jambhala and the goddesses Mahāpratisarā and Vasudhārā. Mr. Bhattacharyya has identified two images of Mahāpratisarā now in Dacca but in neither of these cases does the Sādhana correspond to the one quoted by him. The Sādhana quoted on p. 116 describes a goddess with three heads and ten arms, with the figure of Ratnasambhava in the head-dress. Another Sādhana quoted by him in the note on page 133 describes a goddess with a *chaitya* in the head-dress, four heads and eight hands holding a wheel, a thunderbolt, an arrow and a sword in the right hands and a thunderbolt with snare (*vajra-pāśa*), trident, a bow and a battle-axe in the left hands. The image seen by me at Swamibagh near Dacca city in 1911 and now removed to the Dacca Museum, does not show the existence of the *chaitya* over any of the heads and the order of the weapons is quite different:—