Gods and Goddesses of Buddhism
and Hinduism
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SITATAPATTRA
Sitatapattra is the Goddess of the victorious white parasol. She
is a powerful independent deity. She is also known as Ushnishasitatapattra
as she was emanated by Sakyamuni Buddha from his crown protusion (Ushnisha).
Whoever does practice her Sadhana will be reborn in Amitabh's Pureland.
Her sutra and mantra emanated from Buddha's Ushanisha.
She is popular with the Geluk order in particular. She has one thousand
heads. Facing forward are two hundred white faces, to the right are
two hundred yellow faces, behind are two hundred red faces, left are
two hundred green faces, above are two hundred blue faces. Each face
has three eyes and bears a vajra on top. Her body is white in colour,
and covered with a hundred thousand million eyes. She has five hundred
right hands, and five hundred left hands. Each holds a very sharp
flaming sword. Her five hundred right legs are outstretched stepping
on all forms of danger, and five hundred left legs are flexed with
the feet drawn inwards steeping on. |
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EKAJATA
Ekajata is one of the most powerful Goddesses in the Vajrayanic
Pantheon. If a man listen to her mantra, he is at once freed from
all obstacles, and is attended always with good fortune, his enemies
are destroyed, and he becomes religiously inclined.
Ekajata is a ferocious form of Tara. In simplest form, she is represented
seated, holding in her two hands the chopper and skull cup, and
in her crown is an image of Akshyobhya. In other form she is represented
with four to twenty four arms. She is generally standing on her
left foot and her right ankle steeping on corpses. She has the third
eye, she is laughing horribly with prominent teeth, and protruding
tongue. Her eyes are red and round. Her hips are covered by a tiger
skin, and she wears a long garland of heads. If painted her colour
is blue. She is dwarf and corpulent. If she has four arms, her symbols
are sword, knife, blue lotus and a skull cup.
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