The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c14.s2.t4: (III) Uḍḍiyāna Kurukullā
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c14.s2.t4
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(III) Uḍḍiyāna Kurukullā
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| Appearance—Terrible | Colour—Red |
| Āsana—Ardhaparyaṅka | Vāhana—Corpse |
| Arms—Four | |
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This form of Kurukullā is called in Sādhanas Uḍḍiyāna Kurukullā or Kurukullā as worshiped in Uḍḍiyāna (mod. Vajrajogini). This form of the goddess looks rather fierce, with the garland of heads, the five skulls on the head, protruding teeth and tongue, garments of tiger-skin, and brown hair rising above her head in the shape of a flame. Her eyes, red, round and moving, are three in number. She is four-armed; the principal pair of hands is engaged in drawing to the full the flowery bow charged with an arrow of red lotus, while the second pair holds the goad of flowers and the red lotus. She is red in colour and sits in the Ardhaparyaṅka attitude on a corpse.
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Fig. 122 illustrates one of her statuettes found in Peiping. Here the Vāhana of corpse is present.
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- Sādhanamālā — Sanskrit