The glorious single form of Yamantaka is black in color. He has nine faces with thirty seven arms and sixteen legs. He stands with right leg bent and left leg extended. He bares his fangs and looks wrathful. His eyebrows and eyes blaze like the time of destruction. His tawny hair is coiled upward. His eyebrows and eyes blaze like the time of destruction. He has a skull cup made from five dry skulls. His head is adorned with a garland of fifty fresh skulls. A black snake is the sacrificial ladle, and he has a human bone wheel.
He is adorned with bone ornaments such as earrings. He has a large belly and naked body. His eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, and body hairs blaze upward like fire. His main face looks like a buffalo and is wrathful with sharp horns.
He has five locks of hair on his head. The first face on the right of the horn’s root is blue. The face to the right of that is smoke-coloured. The left face is black, and all faces look very wrathful. All nine faces have three eyes on each. The first two arms on the right and left sides hold fresh elephant skins.
On the right side, he holds a curved knife, pestle, water knife, axe, spear, arrow, hook, club, wheel, five-pronged vajra, vajra hammer, sword, and a Changdeo.
On the left side, he holds a skull, head of Brahma, shield, leg, lasso, bow, intestine, bell, hands, cloth from a cremation site, a person speared on the end of a stick, fire pit, skull cup, deekzoop, three pointed trident, and clothes.
The eight right legs press down on a human, buffalo, ox, donkey, camel, dog, sheep, and wolf. The eight left legs press down a vulture, owl, crow, parrot, eagle, big bird, house bird, and shayma. He presses down under his feet Brahmā, Indra, Viṣṇu, Rudra, the six-faced youth, the misleading one, moon and sun. He is standing in the midst of a blazing fire.