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The blue sahaja śaṃvara – five


The blue sahaja śaṃvara – (five deities) is blue in colour with one face and two hands, holding Vajra and a bell (ghaṇṭā) and embracing the red feminine consort Vajra vārāhī, who is holding a curved knife and skull. He stands on a seat on which he stands with his right leg extended pressing black Bhairava and his left leg bent in which its pressing on red kālarātrī. Blue Dakini- is in the east, Green lhamas in the north, red Khaṇḍaroha [a type of ḍākinīs] is in the west, and yellow Rūpavatī [a type of ḍākinīs] is in the south. All four hold a curved knife in their right hand and a skull in their left hands, and they sit on corpse seats in the dancing half-vajra posture.