The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c12.s6.3
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c12.s6.3
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c12.s6.3
One of the Sādhanas describes him as red in colour with all princely ornaments, and as seated on a lion in the Ardhaparyaṅka attitude. He carries the Utpala in his left hand, and the right is disposed in a graceful attitude. He may have a yellow variety, which is known as the Mahārājalīla Mañjuśrī, and the Dhyāna describing that form has already been quoted and translated by Professor Foucher. The red variety of Vāgīśvara is described in the Dhyāna thus :