The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of Eight Gauri Group: Pukkasi and represents figure 204 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 204 - Eight Gaurī Group: Pukkasī
Fig. 204: Pukkasī
(Peiping)
The eight deities of the Gaurī group [viz., Pukkasī] of goddesses are extremely popular in Vajrayāna and are found described in several places both in the Sadhānamālā as well as in the Niṣpannayogāvalī. These goddesses are represented also in the Chinese collection of statuettes in the city of Peiping. [...] All the deities are violent in character with fearful appearance and ornaments, and garlands of heads. They dance in Pratyālīḍha and show the raised index finger with clasped fist against the chest, as the common gesture.
5. Pukkasī:
Colour: blue;
Arms: two;
Symbol: bowl.
The fifth in the series of the Gaurī group of goddesses is Pukkasī whose form is described in the Pañcaḍāka-maṇḍala in the following words (Niṣpannayogāvalī): “Pukkasī is blue in colour and holds in the right hand the bowl of Bodhi mind”. The left shows the Tarjanī against the chest as a common gesture. Two statuettes of this obscure goddess occur in the Chinese collection. One of the two statuettes is illustrated in Fig. 2.