The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c12.s10.2

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Eight Sādhanas in the Sādhanamālā describe the form of this divinity, which is sometimes white and sometimes red. He sits always in the Vajraparyaṅka attitude, but when he sits on an animal he is called Prajñācakra. He is accompanied by the four divinities, Keśinī, Upakeśinī, Candraprabha and Sūryaprabha, and as the group of five originates from the five syllables, ‘A’, ‘R’, ‘P’, ‘C’ and ‘N’, the principal god is called Arapacana. When represented, the four companions of Arapacana resemble the principal god in all respects.