The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c14.s2.t2.4

c14.s2.t2.4

“The worshipper should think himself as the goddess (Kurukullā), who carries the rosary and the cup of Utpala full of nectar in the right and left hands respectively. She is three-eyed and is offered bathing water by (the Bodhisattvas) Padmapāṇi and others, by all the Tathāgatas and the sixteen damsels beginning with Vīṇā. She wears the Jaṭāmukuṭa which is decorated with various flowers and the miniature figure of Amitābha. She displays the sentiment of passionate love, and other sentiments, and turns slightly to have a look at the rosary which she carries in her leaf-like hand. She sits on an animal and rests on the nectar-like lap of the white lotus, that rises from the ocean of milk. She is decked in bracelets, armlets, ear-rings, anklets, pearl-necklace, and is clad in celestial garments. Her hair is tied up by the serpent Ananta of blue colour, her necklace is formed by the milk-coloured Vāsukī, and her prominent ear-ornament (Kuṇḍala) by red Takṣaka, her sacred thread is the green Karkkoṭaka, her girdle is the white Padma the lord of serpents, her Nūpura (anklet) is the serpent Mahāpadma of the colour of the lotus stalk, her bracelet is the yellow Śaṅkhapāla, her armlet is Kulika of the colour of smoky clouds. She is white in colour, and seems to diffuse nectar. She possesses a heart which is melting with compassion.”