The thirteen-deity Black Yamataka is the type of Vairocana based on the Black Yamantaka Tantra. On the back of an angry black buffalo adorned with bone ornaments, standing on a multicoloured lotus and sun, on a seat of Yama, is the black Yamāntaka with three faces—black, white, and red—and six hands. The first two hands hold a flaying knife and skull cup, and he is leaning against the wisdom consort of natural light. The remaining two right hands hold a vajra and a sword, and the remaining two left hands hold a wheel and a lotus. His tongue moves and he bares his blazing fangs. He has three eyes, an orange beard, eyebrows and hair standing upright. He is adorned with vajra ornaments. His body is short and his belly hangs down. His limbs are coarse and he is adorned by the eight great nāgas. He has a crown of five dry human heads and a necklace of fifty fresh blood-dripping heads. He stands with his right leg drawn in and his left leg extended. He has eight masters and four consorts as his retinue. All of them have three faces and six arms. There are thirteen of them, including the principal one.