The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c19.s1.t11.5

c19.s1.t11.5

“The worshipper should conceive himself as (Prasannatārā) who is of golden complexion, of terrible appearance, bestows prosperity, is three-eyed, eight-faced and sixteen-armed. Her brown hair rises upwards and her necklace is made of half-a-hundred heads wet with blood. She emancipates the universe and is terrible to behold. She stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude, has smiling faces, is in the fulness of youth and her garments are of variegated colour. Her first face is yellow, the second to the right is blue, the third green, and the fourth blue like the sky ; the face to the left is white like the Kunda flower, the second red, and the third blue like the sky ; the face on the top is of the colour of smoke, terrible in appearance, distorted and disfigured. In her eight right hands are : 1. the Khaṭvāṅga, 2. the Uptala, 3. the arrow, 4. the Vajra, 5. the Aṅkuśa, 6. the staff, 7. the Kartri and 8. the Abhaya pose ; and in the left 1. the noose with the Tarjanī, 2. the Kapāla, 3. the bow, 4. the Khaṭvāṅga, 5. the Vajra, 6. the noose, 7. the head of Brahmā, and 8. the vessel of gems. She stands on the moon over the double lotus, is radiant with the glow of the sun, tramples under her left foot Indra, under the right Upendra, and presses Rudra and Brahmā between the two, and destroys the veils of ignorance”.