The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t5.6
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t5.6
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The mutilated image (Fig. 140) in the Indian Museum, with three faces and six arms trampling upon Gaṇeśa, probably represents this form of Parṇaśabarī, as the word ‘Vighna’ in the Sādhanamālā often refers to Gaṇeśa. The above-mentioned Sādhana, further states that Parṇaśabarī may have an alternative form with four arms and the image of Akṣobhya on the crown, in which case she will carry the Vajra and the Paraśu in the two right hands, and the Tarjanī with the noose, and the cluster of leaves in the two left, omitting the bow and the arrow.