The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c15.t2.6

c15.t2.6

"The worshipper should conceive himself as the god (Heruka) who stands on a corpse in the Ardhaparyaṅka attitude. He is well clad in human skin and his body is besmeared with ashes. He wields the Vajra in the right hand and from his left shoulder hangs the Khaṭvāṅga with a flowing banner, like a sacred thread. He carries in his left hand the Kapāla full of blood. His necklace is beautified by a chain of half-a-hundred severed heads. His face is slightly distorted with bare fangs and blood-shot eyes. His brown hair rises upwards and forms into a crown which bears the effigy of Akṣobhya. He wears a Kuṇḍala and is decked in ornaments of bones. His head is beautified by five skulls. He bestows Buddhahood and protects the world from the Māras (wicked beings)".