Gods and Goddesses of Buddhism and Hinduism

	BHAISAJYA (MEDICINE) BUDDHA Bhaisajyaguru is known as Medicine Buddha. He is also called the Healing Buddha. He is said to dispense spiritual medicine when properly worshipped. It is even believed that an efficacious cure may be accomplished by merely touching the image. In Tibet, he may be represented either as a Buddha or as a Bodhisatwa.
As a Buddha, he has the urn (small round bulge or protuberance above the bridge of the nose) the fourth superior marks of a Buddha Ushnisha (A buldge or protuberance in the skull of the Buddha the first superior marks of a Buddha) short and curly hair. He wears a monastic robe, is seated with the legs crossed. His left hand lying in his lap in meditation mudra, usually holds the medicine bowl, while the right hand in charity mudra holds either a branch with fruit, or the fruit alone, of the myrobalan, as medicinal plant found in India and other tropical countries.
	VIDHYADHARI Vidhyadhari is a spirit, or demigod possessed of knowledge or magic powers, she is one of the Tantric group of four females, skilled in yoga. She has two arms and two legs. Her right leg is bent upwards at the knee so that she is not touching corpse that is lying face down beneath her. At the same time she has thrown her left leg so high that it is actually backwards. This performance shows that she is a slim young woman.
She has a splendid crown, round earrings, chains round her neck and over breast and bends round her upper arms, wrists and bends round her upper arms, wrists and ankles. From her shoulders hangs a long garland of human skulls. She has raised her left hand so if to drink from a bowl made out of a human skull with blood. In her right hand carries a chopper
BAJRAGANDHARI Bajragandhari is one of the terrible Goddess endowed with six faces and twelve arms. She is blue in color with brown hair rising upwards. She stands in the Pratyalidha attitude. Her faces look terrible with bare fangs and three eyes. She carries in her six right hands, the vajra, the bell marked with a vajra, the sword, the trident, the arrow and the disc. In her six left hands she carries Khartwanga, the goad, the bow, the parasu, the noose and the tarjani against the chest. Her first face is blue and the other five faces show five different colours.
	NAIRATMA The word 'Nairatma' means 'having no soul' and is another name for Surya. The forms of Nairatma is in many respects similar to the form of Vajravarahi, she is blue in colour while Vajravarahi is red in colour. Vajravarahi is emanation of Vairochana on the crown; while Nairatma, being an emanation of Akshyobhya, should bear the image of Akshyobhra on the cronw. Like Vajravarahi she stands in the Ardhapayanka in a dancing attitude on the moon over the chest of a corpse; Her face looks teerible with bare fangs and protruding tongue. She carries the Katri in the right hand and bears the Kapala and the Khartwanga in the left.