The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t5.5
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t5.5
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c16.t5.5
“The worshipper should conceive himself as (Parṇaśabarī) of yellow complexion, with three faces, three eyes and six arms. Her first face is blue, the right white and the left red, and she smiles in a pleasing manner. She is decked in all sorts of ornaments, bears a garment of leaves, is arrogant in her youthful bloom, is stout in appearance and carries in her right hands the Vajra, the Paraśu and the arrow, and in her left the Tarjanī with the noose, the cluster of leaves and the bow. Her Jaṭāmukuṭa is decorated with flowers and the image of Akṣobhya; she has the effulgence of the sun as her aureole, stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude on the moon over the white lotus, trampling under her feet the Vighnas. She threatens the host of (other) Vighnas with the clenched fist of the left hand exhibiting the Tarjanī against the chest, and shakes her right fist at (the host of the Vighnas) ..”