The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of Emanations of Akshobhya: Vajravidarani and represents figure 150 of the book Indian Buddhist Iconography, based on extracts of the Sadhanamala English translation. These plates and illustrations represent either photographs of sculptures or line-drawing reproductions of paintings or other representations of Buddhist artwork.
Figure 150 - Emanations of Akṣobhya: Vajravidāraṇī
Figure 150: Vajravidāraṇī
Vajravidāraṇī is described in the Dharmakoṣasaṅgraha (Dharmakośasaṃgraha) of Amṛtānanda as follows: “Vajravidāraṇī is five-faced, ten-armed, carries in the right hands the goad, the sword, the arrow, the Vajra, and the Varada-mudrā, and in the left the noose, the shield, the bow, the flag and the Abhaya pose. She stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude”.
Fig. 150 illustrates a miniature painting of the goddess [Vajravidāraṇī] in the collection of Dr. Evans-Wentz.