Item: Hevajra (Buddhist Deity) - Margapala Instruction Lineage

Shri Hevajra.

Video: HAR #207004

"...Shri Hevajra with a body blue in colour, eight faces, sixteen hands and four legs. The main face is blue, right white, left red, upper face smoky; the two remaining pairs of faces are black. Each face has three eyes and four bared fangs; yellow hair flowing upwards; the top of the head is marked with a vishvavajra. The sixteen hands hold sixteen skullcups. The first right holds a white elephant, the first left holds the yellow God of Earth; these two embrace the Mother. In the second right is a blue horse; third - ass with a white patch; fourth - yellow bull; fifth - ash-coloured camel; sixth - red man; seventh - blue sharabha; eighth - cat with a white patch. In the second left hand is the white God of Water; third - red God of Fire; fourth - green God of Air; fifth - white God of the Moon; sixth - red God of the Sun; seventh - blue Yama; eighth - yellow Holder of Wealth. Each head has a crown of five dry human skulls; and a necklace of fifty fresh heads; six bone ornaments; the two right legs are extended, on the thighs the toes of the two folded left legs are pressing in the half-[vajra] posture in a dancing manner; possessing the nine sentiments of dancing: grace, strength and ugliness; laughter, ferocity and frightful; compassion, fury and peace. In the lap is the mother Vajra Nairatmya, with a body blue in colour, one face, two hands, three eyes; yellow hair flowing upwards; right a curved knife, left holding a skullcup and embracing the father; five dry human skulls as a crown; a necklace of fifty dry [skulls]; five bone ornaments; left leg extended and the right drawn up embracing the father. Both are standing in the middle of a blazing fire of pristine awareness." (Ngagwang Legpa).

At the top center is Kalachakra. Descending on the left side are Chakrasamvara, Vajraygini, Rakta Yamari, Bhutadamara Vajrapani, Vajra Vidarana, and Brahmanarupa Mahakala with four attendant goddesses.

Descending on the right side are Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja, Vajrabhairava, Kurukulla, Humkara and Shri Devi. Below that is a small figure holding an arrow and a mirror, riding atop what appears to be a horse.

At the bottom center is Panjarnata Mahakala with Ekajati and the Five Activity attendants.

Jeff Watt 3-2026