The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c24.5
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c24.5
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5. Māyājālakrama Lokeśvara. He has five faces and twelve arms. The head on the top probably represents Amitābha. He stands in the Ālīḍha attitude, and wears the tiger-skin and the garland of heads, but his faces do not present a fearful appearance. The six right hands carry the Triḍaṇḍī, the Khaṭvāṅga, the jewel, the Khaḍga, the Vajra and the rosary, and the six left show the noose, the Kapāla, the Utpala, the fruit, the Cakra and the lotus.