The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.s9.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c18.s9.2
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Mahāmāyūrī is another goddess of the Pañcarakṣā group, and is affiliated to Amoghasiddhi in the same way as the other members of the group are affiliated to one or another of the Dhyāni Buddhas. She is different in form when worshipped in the Pañcarakṣā Maṇḍala, which will be described later. When she bears the image of Amoghasiddhi on the crown she is three-faced and six-armed, but she may have another form with one face, two arms and yellow complexion, in which case she will hold peacock's feathers in the right hand and display the Varada mudrā in the left. The three-faced and six-armed form of Mahāmāyūrī has been described in the Sādhanamālā as follows :