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. 4. Mahàsîtavatï 4. Mahäsitavati (Fig. 4). A spell against fearful animals and plants. Her element is the water (the earth), her cardinal point the North (the West), Amoghasiddhi (Amitabha) Dhyänibuddha has authority over her. She sits on a throne of flowering lotus in dhyänäsana. She has three heads and six hands. She is decorated with magnificent ornaments. She holds her low

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preventing fear", abhayamudrä, the following ones hold a thunderbolt, vajra, an arrow, in the left hands a noose, a banner decorated with precious stones and a bow. The sun is shining behind her. Her opposite is Amoghasiddhi (Fig. 9), the lord of the North and the water,