The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t4: 4. Vidyujjvālākarālī

The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t4

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4. Vidyujjvālākarālī

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Faces—Twelve Arms—Twenty-four Colour—Blue Āsana—Pratyālīḍha Vāhana—Indra, Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva

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Another variety of Ekajaṭā is known as Vidyujjvālākarālī, who is said to have originated from the sweat of Buddha. This form of Ekajaṭā, with twelve faces and twenty-four arms, is rarely met with in sculptures either in stone or in bronze. The Dhyāna is rather long and it describes the goddess vividly thus :

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"Dvādaśamukhāṃ mahākṛṣṇavarṇāṃ caturviṃśatibhujāṃ caturmārasamākrāntāṃ śvetakapālopari pratyālīḍhapadāṃ mahāpralayāgnisamaprabhāṃ vivṛtāsyāṃ hāhākārāṃ lalajjihvāṃ saroṣāṃ vikṛtakoṭibhīmabhṛkuṭītaṭobhrūnetracaladvartulāṃ bhayasyāpi bhayaṅkarīṃ

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kapālamālā śirasi bhūṣitāṃ vyādairalaṅkṛtāṃ ṣaṇmudropetāṃ prathamamukhaṃ mahākṛṣṇaṃ tathā dakṣiṇamukhapañcakaṃ sitapīṭaharitaraktadhūmavarṇañca, vāmamukhapañcakaṃ raktasitapīṭaharitasitaraktañca, ūrdhvamukhaṃ dhūmraṃ vikṛtaṃ kruddhaṃ, sarvamukhāni daṃṣṭrākarālavadanāni, trinetrāṇi, jvalitordhvapiṅgalakeśāni , saroṣāṃ kharvalambodarīṃ pīnonnatapayodharāṃ vyāghracarmanivasanāṃ dakṣiṇadvādaśabhujeṣu khaḍga-vajra-cakra-ratnacchat-aṅkuśa-śara-śakti-mudgara-mūṣala-kartri-ḍamaru-akṣamālikāñca, vāmadvādaśabhujeṣu dhanuḥ-pāśa-tarjanī-patākā-gadā-triśūla-caṣaka-utpala-ghaṇṭā-paraśu- Brahmāśiraḥ-kapālañca.

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Suprahṛṣṭāṃ śavārūḍhāṃ nāgāṣṭakavibhūṣitāṃ I
Navayauvanasampannāṃ hāhāṭṭahāsa-bhāsurāṃ II
Piṅgograikajaṭāṃ dhyāyāt maulāv-Akṣobhya-bhūṣitāṃ II

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Iti Vidyujjvālākarālīnamaikajaṭāsādhanam ”

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Sādhanamālā, p. 257

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“The worshipper should conceive himself as (Vidyujjvālākarālī) who has twelve faces, deep blue colour and twenty-four arms, she tramples upon the four Māras (Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva and Indra), stands on white skulls in the Pratyālīḍha attitude, is terrible like the Fire of Destruction, has a wide open mouth from which comes the sounds of ‘hā’ ‘hā’. She has protruding tongue, is wrathful, has eyes round and moving, and her forehead is distorted owing to the frequent contortions of the brows. She is more awe-inspiring than Awe itself, and her head is decorated with a garland of skulls ; she is decked in ornaments of snake, and is endowed with the six auspicious symbols ; her first face is of deep blue colour and the five faces to the right are white, yellow, green, red and smoky in colour ; the five faces to the left are of red, white, yellow, green and whitish red colour. The face on the top is of the colour of smoke, distorted and displays anger. All her faces look terrible with bare fangs and three eyes ; her brown hair rise upwards in the shape of a flame ; she is short and has a protruding belly. Her breasts are full and heaving ; she is clad in tiger-skin, and carries in her twelve right hands, 1. the sword, 2. the thunderbolt, 3. the discus, 4. the jewel, 5. the elephant-goad, 6. the arrow, 7. the dart, 8. the hammer, 9. the pestle, 10. the saw, 11. the drum and 12. the rosary ; and in her twelve left hands she has 1. the bow, 2. the noose, 3. the raised index finger, 4. the flag, 5. the mace, 6. the trident, 7. the wine-glass, 8. the blue lotus, 9. the bell, 10. the axe, 11. the severed head of Brahmā, 12. and the skull. In an extremely happy mood she rides a corpse, is youthful, appears resplendent with terrible laugh, wears a Jaṭāmukuṭa, which is brown and fiery and which bears the image of Akṣobhya on it.”

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Here ends the Sādhana for Vidyujjvālākarālī, another form of Ekajaṭā.”

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Sādhanamālā — Sanskrit