The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c12.s7.8

c12.s7.8

The lion vehicle of Mañjuvara is sometimes absent, and in later images he may be found sitting in the Paryaṅka or any other attitude (Fig. 84). The lotus to the right which is not expressly required by the Sādhana sometimes bears the book (Fig. 85), and sometimes the sword in order to preserve the balance in a better way (Fig. 86). One of the two Indian Museum images of Mañjuvara is on either side of the god two feminine figures which no doubt represent the two wives of Mañjuśrī, Keśinī and Upakeśinī. Mañjuvara is well known in Tibet ¹