The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c12.s12.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c12.s12.2
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c12.s12.2
This form of Mañjuśrī is rarely to be met with either in stone or in bronze. One Sādhana only is devoted to the worship of this divinity which shows that this form was not very popular amongst the Vajrayānists. Vādirāṭ is of medium height, neither very short nor very tall, and appears a youth of sixteen years. He sits on the back of a tiger in the Ardhaparyaṅka attitude with his left leg slightly raised. He wears all sorts of ornaments, and exhibits the Vyākhyāna mudrā. The Dhyāna which is in verse, describes the form of Vādirāt in the following terms :