The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c15.t10.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c15.t10.2
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c15.t10.2
One Sādhana only in the Sādhanamālā describes the procedure for the worship of Sambara who is only another form of Hevajra. He is two-armed and one-faced, and bears the effigy of Akṣobhya on his crown. He appears terrible with his garment of tiger-skin, the garland of heads, a string of skulls round the head, three eyes and the Ālīḍha attitude, in which he tramples, upon Kālarātri. The Dhyāna is in verse and describes the god in the following terms :