The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c23.7

c23.7

True reasons for these discrepancies can hardly be given at this state of our knowledge. The most reasonable suggestion seems to be that the original texts are not still known in their entirety. It must be remembered that the Sādhanamālā and the Niṣpannayogāvalī are not the only texts produced in Vajrayāna. It is quite likely that new Sādhanas will be forthcoming when further material is published. It is difficult, however, to believe that a new Sādhana for either Mārīcī or Uṣṇīṣavijayā will be available. In the Sādhanamālā itself a large number of Sādhanas is published, but nowhere there is any mention of any other parental Buddha than Vairocana. Thus the possibility of discovering further Sādhanas prescribing parental Buddhas other than Vairocana seems to be remote.