The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t3.3
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t3.3
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Ekajaṭā is one of the most powerful goddesses in the Vajrayāna pantheon. It is said in the Sādhanamālā that if a person listens to her mantra but once, he is at once freed from all obstacles and is attended always with good fortune, his enemies are destroyed and he becomes religiously inclined, even attaining the level of a Buddha. Four Sādhanas in the Sādhanamālā dovoted to the worship of Ekajaṭā, describe three different forms of the goddess. She may have one face with two, four or eight arms.