The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.s7.4
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c18.s7.4
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c18.s7.4
Sitatārā, as the name implies, is a Tārā of white variety with one face and four arms. She is accompanied by two goddesses Mārīcī and Mahāmāyūrī. It may be remembered that Khadiravaṇī also is accompanied by Mārīcī and Ekajaṭā ; but the difierence is that Khadiravaṇī is two-armed whereas Sitatārā is four-armed. The Dhyāna contained in the only Sādhana for her worship in the Sādhanamālā describes her form in the following terms :