The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of Eight Gauri Group: Ghasmari and represents figure 203 of the book Indian Buddhist Iconography, based on extracts of the Sadhanamala English translation. These plates and illustrations represent either photographs of sculptures or line-drawing reproductions of paintings or other representations of Buddhist artwork.
Figure 203 - Eight Gaurī Group: Ghasmarī
Fig. 203: Ghasmarī
(Peiping)
The eight deities of the Gaurī group [viz., Ghasmarī] of goddesses are extremely popular in Vajrayāna and are found described in several places both in the Sadhānamālā as well as in the Niṣpannayogāvalī. These goddesses are represented also in the Chinese collection of statuettes in the city of Peiping. [...] All the deities are violent in character with fearful appearance and ornaments, and garlands of heads. They dance in Pratyālīḍha and show the raised index finger with clasped fist against the chest, as the common gesture.
4. Ghasmarī:
Colour: green;
Arms: two;
Symbol: bell;
The fourth goddess of the Gaurī group is Ghasmarī whose form is described in the Pañcaḍāka-maṇḍala as follows (Niṣpannayogāvalī): “Ghasmarī is green in colour and holds in her right hand the bell marked with a Vajra”. The left shows the common gesture of Tarjanī. Two statuettes of this obscure goddess are found in the Chinese collection. One of the two statuettes is illustrated in Fig. 203.