The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c13.s8.6

c13.s8.6

“The worshipper should think himself as Ārya-Avalokiteśvara, whose colour is blue. He stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude, on the orb of the sun. He is five-faced, three-eyed, twelve-armed, with the two right faces of white and red colour, and two left of yellow and green colour. He carries in his right hands the 1. Ḍamaru, 2. the Khaṭvāṅga, 3. the goad, 4. the noose, 5. the Vajra and the 6. the arrow, and in the left hands the 1. raised index finger, 2. the Kapāla, 3. the red lotus, 4. the jewel, 5. the discus, and 6. the bow. His faces look terrible with bare fangs. He wears the six bone ornaments and his person is embellished by the garland of heads. He is nude and appears beautiful in all limbs. Thus quickly meditating...”