The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t16: 14. Vajravidāraṇī
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t16
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14. Vajravidāraṇī
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Vajravidāraṇī is described in the Dharmakoṣasaṅgraha of Amṛtānanda as follows :
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“Vajravidāraṇī pañcamukhī daśabhujā ; dakṣe aṅkuśa-khaḍga-śara-vajra-varadā ; vāme paśa-carma-dhanu-dhvaja-abhayā pratyālīḍhāsanā”.
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Dharmakoṣasaṅgraha Fol. 44A.
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“Vajravidāraṇī is five-faced, ten-armed, carries in the right hands the goad, the sword, the arrow, the Vajra, and the Varada mudrā, and in the left the noose, the shield, the bow, the flag and the Abhaya pose. She stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude”.
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Fig. 150 illustrates a miniature painting of the goddess in the collection of Dr. Evans-Wentz.