Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 6. (Budapest, 1963)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Tóth, Edit: The Iconography of the Portraits of the Pancaraksä-Manuscript

Fig. 1. .Mahäpratisarä The page opposite her shows Vairocana (Fig. 6), the lord of the „central" position, on a lotus throne; both his shoulders are covered by a garment, his hands are raised to a ^teaching" gesture, dharmacakramudrä. 2. Mahäsähasrapramardani (Fig. 2). Incantation against earthquake, storms and evil spirits. Her element is the air (the ether), her point of the compass is East („Centre", East), her ruler AJcsobhya (Vairocana). She sits on a throne of flowering lotus in a „resting" posture: her right leg is stretched out slightly, her left drawn up. Her appearance is „frightful"; she has three heads and eight arms. Her hair flares like the tongue of a flame, her brows are knitted, eyes protrude from her head in anger, and her teeth are visible from the mouth opened in a wrathful cry. There is a crown of human skulls on her