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The goddess Mārīcī


The goddess Mārīcī is yellow with three faces and six arms. Her right face is white and Her left is black Varaha, wrathful, scowling, sideways gazing, her tongue curled. She has three eyes and three arms. Of his six arms, the right ones hold an arrow, vajra, needle, and the left one a bowstring, and a branch of the aśoka tree together with flowers. She wears a blue upper garment and a blue lower garment. She is adorned with ornaments such as a crown of various jewels. His hair is adorned with a stūpa. She is seated on a chariot wheel with eight golden-coloured pigs. Her body is adorned with a garland of aśoka flowers. She is surrounded by a retinue of twenty-four goddesses such as Arcimat. All outer and inner obstructing spirits are pacified, epidemics are pacified, and death is averted. Her lifespan is prolonged and her sins are purified. The benefits worship her are inconceivable such as pacifying harm from external obstacles, thieves, wild animals, and so forth.