The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.s8.4
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c18.s8.4
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c18.s8.4
"The worshipper should conceive himself as Parnaśabarī, who has a green complexion, three-faces, three eyes, and six arms. Her right and left faces are of blue and white colour respectively. She carries in her three right hands the Vajra, the Paraśu and the arrow, and in her three left, the bow, the cluster of leaves and the Tarjanīpāśa. Her faces show an angry laugh. She is in the prime of youth, is decked in tiger-skin and a garment of leaves, has a slightly protruding belly, and hair tied up above. She tramples under her feet various diseases and pestilences, and bears the image of Amoghasiddhi on the crown Thus meditating.. ".