The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t9: 8. Mahāmantrānusāriṇī
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t9
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8. Mahāmantrānusāriṇī
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Colour—Blue Arms—Four Mudrā—Varada
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The remarks made in the case of Mahaśīṭavatī, an emanation of Amitābha and one of the Pañcarakṣā goddesses, apply to the case of Mahāmantrānusāriṇī also. This goddess is another of the Pañcarakṣā goddesses, and as her colour is blue, she affiliates herself to the family of the Dhyāni Buddha Akṣobhya Only one short Sādhana describes her form, and the Dhyāna contained therein is as follows :
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“Mahāmantrānusāriṇī caturbhujaikamukhī kṛṣṇā dakṣiṇabhujadvaye vajravaradavatī vāmabhujadvaye paraśupāśavatī Hūṃkārabījā Akṣobhyakirīṭinī sūryyāsanaprabhā ceti”
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Sādhanamālā, p. 401.
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“Mahāmantrānusāriṇī is four-armed and one-faced, is blue in complexion, shows in her two right hands, the Vajra and the Varada mudrā and in her two left the Paraśu and the noose. She originates from the syllable “Hūṃ”, bears the image of Akṣobhya on the crown, sits on and glows like the sun.”
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Images of this deity are known in Tibet ² and China ³.
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² Gordon : ITL, p. 76
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³ As Mantrānudhāraṇī she occurs in Clark : TLP, II, pp. 205-275.
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- Sādhanamālā — Sanskrit