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The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c17.s5.2

The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c17.s5.2

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c17.s5.2

Mahāsāhasrapramardani is another goddess of the Pañcarakṣā group, and is assigned to Vairocana exactly in the same way as Mahāsītavatī and Mahāmantrānusāriṇī are affiliated respectively to Amitābha and Akṣobhya. Her form is different from that in which she is worshipped in the Pañcarakṣā Maṇḍala. Here the Dhyāna describes her form in the following terms :