The Sanskrit terms Śūkarāsyā and Śūkarāsya can be transliterated into English as Sukarasya or Shukarasya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist Iconography

Śūkarāsyā (शूकरास्या) refers to one of the four “Animal-faced Goddess”, as commonly depicted in Buddhist Iconography, and mentioned in the 11th-century Niṣpannayogāvalī of Mahāpaṇḍita Abhayākara.—Her Colour is yellowish-blue; her Symbol is the sow-face; she has two arms.—The second in the series of four goddesses with animal faces is Śūkarāsyā (“sow-faced”).

Śūkarāsyā is described in the Niṣpannayogāvalī (nairātma-maṇḍala) as follows:—

“On the South there is Śūkarāsyā with yellowish-blue colour”.

[She is also described as four-armed and four-faced, and as similar in appearance to Vajrapāśī..

This set of four deities are given each a different direction in the maṇḍala. In the kālacakra-maṇḍala, four more deities with birds faces are added for the intermediate corners. [...] They carry in their hands the kartri (chopper) and the kapāla (skull-cup). A khatvāṅga (magic stick) hangs from their shoulders. They are some-times two-armed and at others four-armed.]

Source: Wisdomlib Libary: Vajrayogini

Sūkarāsyā (सूकरास्या, “hog-faced”) is the presiding deity of the western outern gate of the vārāhyabhyudaya-maṇḍala, according to the Vārāhyabhyudayatantra (largerly extracted from the 10th century Abhidhānottaratantra). It is composed of the Sanskrit words sūkara (hog) and āsya (face). The central deity of the vārāhyabhyudaya-maṇḍala is the twelve-armed Vajravarāhī, which is modeled upon the twelve-armed Cakrasaṃvara, thus inhibiting many similar iconographical features.

Sūkarāsyā is associated with the colors green and blue. She is to be visualised as dwarfish in shape and squint-eyed. They wield in their left hands a skull bowl and the head of Brahmā, and in their right hands a chopper and ḍamaru.

Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka Maṇḍala

Śūkarāsyā (शूकरास्या) refers to the Ḍākinī of the southern gate in the Guṇacakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the guṇacakra refers to one of the four divisions of the sahaja-puṭa (‘innate layer’), situated within the padma (lotus) in the middle of the Herukamaṇḍala. The four gate Ḍākinīs [viz., Śūkarāsyā] each has the same physical feature as the four Ḍākinīs starting with Lāmā.

Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara Samadhi

Śūkarāśyā (शूकराश्या) is the Southern Ḍākinī representing one of the four “guardians of the gates” of the Cakrasaṃvara-maṇḍala or Saṃvaramaṇḍala of Abhayākaragupta’s Niṣpannayogāvalī, p. 45 and n. 145; (Cf. Cakrasaṃvaratantra, Gray, David B., 2007).—The Cakrasaṃvara mandala has a total of sixty-two deities. [...] Eight outer Ḍākinīs who make up the guardians of the directional gates and quarters of the cardinal directions.

Śūkarāśyā is associated with the color “yellow” and the Bodhipakṣa (wings of enlightenment) is samyaksmṛiti (right mindfulness).

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sūkarāsyā (सूकरास्या):—[from sū-kara] f. Name of a Buddhist goddess, [Kālacakra]

[Sanskrit to German]

Sukarasya in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Arasya, Shuka, Asya, Sukara.

Full-text: Saukarya, Krishna, Pita, Vajrabandha, Purvadi, Rakta, Shyama, Vajrodbava.

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The Indian Buddhist Iconography (by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya)

Figure 215-216 - Four Animal-Faced Goddesses: Siṃhāsyā

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