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The six-faced Yamāntaka


The six-faced Yamāntaka is black in colour, with six faces, six arms, and six legs. The two stacked faces at the root are black, the stacked faces on the right are white, and the stacked faces on the left are red. He has three eyes. The first two hands hold a vajra and bell, the middle two a hammer and lasso, and the last two a sword and pestle. The front two legs are in the vajra position, and the middle two are drawn in and the left extended. His hair, eyebrows, and beard are orange and stand upright. He wears a crown of five dry human heads and a necklace of fifty fresh blood-dripping heads. He is adorned with snakes and jewels and wears a skirt of tiger skin.