The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c19.s1.t6.6

c19.s1.t6.6

The form with four faces and eight arms is described under the five Rakṣā deities. But there is another form which is worshipped independently, and which is almost identical with the preceeding one, except that here she is endowed with four faces and eight arms. The principal face is yellow, the right white, the left red, and the face behind blue. She carries in her four right hands the sword, the Cakra, the Triśūla and the arrow, and in the four left the Paraśu, the bow, the noose and the Vajra.