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. 2. Mahäsähasrapramardani head, her hips are covered with a tigerskin decorated with the heads of decapitated people. In contrast to these she wears magnificent jewels. Starting from the lower ones we find a M thunder bolt", vajra, an elephant-goad, an arrow and a flaming sword in her right hands, a noose, an elephant-goad, a bow and a lotus in the left ones; precious stones may be seen in the calyx of the lotus. AJcsobhya (Fig. 7) is located on the opposite page; he sits on a lotus throne, his left shoulder is covered by a garment, he holds his right hand in a gesture ^touching the ground", his left in a M

meditating" one. 3. Mahämäyüri (Fig. 3). Incantation against snake-bite. Her element is the earth (the w

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ater), her point of the compass, the South (the North), her ruler Ratnasambhava (Amoghasiddhi) Dhyänibbudha. She sits on a throne of flower-