The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.s8.2

c18.s8.2

One form of Parṇaśabarī of yellow colour has already been discussed along with the female emanations of the Dhyāni Buddha Akṣobhya. But here her complexion is green probably because the Dhyāni Buddha Amoghasiddhi, from whom she is said to emanate, is of that colour. The Mantra calls her ‘Piśācī’ and also ‘Sarvamāripraśamanī’ or “the destroyer of all diseases and epidemics”. She is almost identical with the form that has been described previously, except that here her colour is green and she bears the image of Amoghasiddhi on her crown, instead of that of Akṣobhya. She carries the same weapons as the previous one, but the expressions of their faces are very different, there a pleasant beaming smile, here an angry laugh. As the two specimens of Parnaśabarī discovered in East Bengal both bearing the image of Amoghasiddhi on the crown, it is necessary to quote the Dhyāna in this case also, for a comparison of the details with the images reproduced here: