The University of Nalanda c12.81

c12.81

The finds have yielded one of the most unique types of Tantrayāna or better Kālacakrayāna images in the figure of Yamāntaka. It has three faces, bearing a protruding tongue, canine teeth, two eyes (though the Sādhana requires three) and contortions of the brows. It has a big belly, is short and dwarfish . . . . . He carries the sword, *vajra*, *muśala*(?) in the three right hands, and lasso, the *ghaṇṭā* and axe (?) in the three left. He rides a buffalo, stands in the *Pratyā-līḍha* attitude, and wears a garland of severed human heads.⁴