The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c15.t3: 3. Hevajra

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In the Hevajra Maṇḍala of the Niṣpannayogāvalī, Heruka is the principal deity, thus showing that their is only a very thin line of demarcation between the two, Heruka and Hevajra. When Heruka is accompanied with his Prajñā, he begets the name of Hevajra. In the Maṇḍala no less than four distinct forms of Hevajra are described. In all these Hevajra is accompanied with his Śakti whose name differs according to the numbers of his hands.