The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c15.t7.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c15.t7.2
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c15.t7.2
The fourth type of Hevajra according to Hevajra Maṇḍala is sixteen-armed and is alike in appearance with the three other forms described before. The difference lies in his having eight faces and four legs; with his four legs he tramples upon four Hindu gods instead of standing upon a corpse as in the three others. His form is described rather elaborately in the Maṇḍala in question as under: