The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c15.t2.7
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c15.t2.7
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In another Sādhana for the worship of this particular kind of Heruka the Khaṭvāṅga is described as being marked with a Vajra of five thongs and decorated with a banner with jingling bells, human heads and double lotus, the lower part of the Khaṭvāṅga resembling the Vajra with one thong. The Sādhana does not mention the number of heads in the necklace, but says simply that they are strung with guts. His left leg rests on the double lotus (and not on the corpse) while the right is placed on the left thigh in a dancing attitude.