The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c19.t2: 2. Ucchuṣma Jambhala
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c19.t2
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2. Ucchuṣma Jambhala
c19.t2.1
Āsana—Pratyālīḍha Appearance—Terrible Vāhana—Kuvera
c19.t2.2
This Ucchuṣma Jambhala is identical in form with the one already discussed under the emanations of Akṣobhya. Here also Ucchuṣma stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude with his left leg stretched forward on the forehead of Kuvera while the right tramples upon his two legs. He is terrible to behold, with protruding belly, bare fangs and the snakes for ornaments. He holds the Kapāla full of blood against his chest in the right hand and looks eagerly at it with three eyes. The left hand as usual holds the mongoose.
c19.t2.3
Ucchuṣma Jambhala is rarely represented and his images are not known except the one at Sarnath already described under the emanations of Akṣobhya. This unique image shows all the characteristic features of the god as obtained from the Sādhanas. The figure shows his consort Vasudhārā in the left, but the effigy of neither Akṣobhya nor Ratnasambhava can be seen on his head. It is Amitābha who is there. Nevertheless, this is the only figure known to students of iconography, as representing Ucchuṣma Jambhala.
c19.t2.4
Jambhala in his fierce form of Ucchuṣma or Dimbha is not known either in Tibet or in China.