Stupas in Orissa (Study)
by Meenakshi Chauley | 2013 | 109,845 words
This study examines the Stupas and Votive Stupas in Odisha or Orissa (Eastern India).—In this thesis an attempt has been made to trace the historicity of Buddhism in Odisha on the basis of the architectural development of the Stupa architecture. Archaeological evidence obtained from excavated sites dates such structures as early as third-second cen...
Emanations of Amitabha
Tarodbhava Kurukulla
The goddess is shown with two, four, six or eight arms. When she is depicted with six arms, she bears the image of five Dhayani-B uddha on her crown, when she is two-armed she is known as Sukla Kurukulla and with four arms she is known as Tarodbhava Kurukulla. She is the goddess of enthralling men, women, ministers and even kings. The mantra of Kurukulla is “Om Kurukulle Hum Hrih Svaha”, when this mantra is chanted ten thousand times all men are bewitched, thirty thousand times for a minister and one lakh for a king.
According to the sadhana Taradobhava is in red colour with garments, ornaments and is depicted seated on a red lotus. She is four-armed seated in vajraparyankasana, left two arms displays abhaya mudra and the arrow and in the right to arms she carries the bow and a red lotus (Plate-CLXVI).
Bhrkuti
The three-eyed goddess emanates from Amitabha of red colour. She holds the tridandi and the kamandalu with her left hands, the upper right hand holds a rosary while the other right is in the varad mudra (Plate-XXVIII A)