The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c17.s8: 8. Grahamātṛkā
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c17.s8
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8. Grahamātṛkā
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Faces—Three Arms—Six Mudrā—Dharmacakra Āsana—Vajraparyaṅka
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She has been described in the Dharmakoṣasaṅgraha in the following words:
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“Grahamātṛkā trimukhā śvetapītaraktā ṣaḍbhujā dakṣe dharmacakra-mudrā-vajra-śarā ; vāme kamala-cāpā ; sahasradalapadme vajrāsanā”.
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Dharmakoṣasaṅgraha. fol. 44A.
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“Grahamātṛkā has three faces of white, yellow and red colour, and six-arms, displaying the Dharmacakra mudrā (in the principal pair of hands) and carrying the Vajra and the arrow in the two right hands, and in the two left the lotus and the bow. She sits in the Vajrāsana on a lotus of a thousand petals”.
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Fig. 165 illustrates a miniature painting in the possession of Dr. Evans-Wentz ¹.
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¹ Getty : GNB, illustrates a similar miniature on plate LXI, p. 474.