The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c22.s2.6

c22.s2.6

“The worshipper should concieve himself as god Gaṇapati of red complexion, bearing the Jaṭāmukuṭa, decked in all ornaments, having twelve arms, a protruding belly and one face. He stands in the Ardhaparyaṅka in a dancing attitude, is three-eyed and has one tusk He carries in his right hands the Kuṭhāra, the arrow, the goad, the Vajra, the sword and the Śūla, and in his left the Mūṣala, the bow, the Khaṭvāṅga, the Kapāla full of blood, the Kapāla of dried meat and the Phaṭka. He rides the mouse on a red lotus.”