The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.s2.7
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c18.s2.7
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She is commonly known as Śyāmā-Tārā¹ because of her green colour, and as the Sādhana does not mention any particular Āsana she may be represented in any attitude, either sitting (Fig. 166) or standing (Fig. 167). A beautiful statuette in the Baroda Museum shows the goddess in the Lalita attitude (Fig. 168)