The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c17.s2.t2: (II) Ārya-Mārīcī
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c17.s2.t2
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(II) Ārya-Mārīcī
c17.s2.t2.1
Symbols—Needle and String.
c17.s2.t2.2
Ārya-Mārīcī is identical with Aśokakāntā except for the symbols she bears in her hands. As already stated, Aśokakāntā has the Aśoka bough and the Varada pose, but Ārya-Mārīcī carries the needle and the string ¹.
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¹ Sādhana No. 147 in the Sādhanamālā, p. 305.
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- Sādhanamālā — Sanskrit