Red Yamāntaka is red in colour, with one face and two arms, holding a white staff marked with a yellow, wet human head in his right hand and a skull cup in his left hand. He embraces a consort of light similar to himself, with bared fangs, a rolled tongue and three eyes. His yellow hair is drawn upward. He wears a crown of five dry human heads and a garland of fifty fresh blood-dripping human heads. He wears a tiger skin skirt and is adorned by the eight great nāgas. He stands on a red buffalo in the posture of his left leg outstretched, surrounded by nine deities: the four male and four female retinue deities and the principal deity.