Tara in Hinduism
author: Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya
edition: 2003, Eastern Book Linkers
pages: 414
ISBN-10: 8178540215
Topic: Hinduism
Archaeological Sources - Kurukulla
This page describes Kurukulla from page 38 in the book: Tara in Hinduism by Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya. This book represents a study of the Goddess Tara (啶むぞ啶班ぞ, 迟腻谤腻) and collects various standpoints regarding her cult from both Buddhist and Brahmanical sources. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms. It is part of the series 鈥淭ara from Archaeological Sources鈥�.
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The Indian Buddhist Iconography [by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya]
Emanations of Amitabha: Kurukulla. Figure 121 Kurukulla (Nepalese Drawing) Figure 122: Kurukulla (Peiping) Kurukulla is one-faced and may have two, four, six or eight arms. When she is six -armed, she bears the effigies of the five Dhyani Buddhas on her crown. When two-armed, she is called Shukla Kurukulla, and when she is four-armed she is called by the names of Tarodbhava Kurukulla, Uddiyana Kurukulla, Hevajrakrama Kurukulla and Kalpokta Kurukulla....
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Abhinaya-darpana (English) [by Ananda Coomaraswamy]
(calcutta museum); Plate II - Kurukulla. KURUKULLA Nepalese copper figure, about sixteenth century, Calcutta Museum. Upper hands in position of shooting an arrow (Cf. Plate XV c)....
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Varahi Tantra (English Study) [by Roberta Pamio]
In the Tantrarajatantra, Kurukulla and Varahi are the balidevatas (receivers of the offerings) of the sixteen Nityas, the "Eternal" Goddesses identified with the fifteen phases of the moon together with Lalita. In the Bhavanopanishad, Varahi is said to be in the form of the father and Kurukulla of the mother. In his commentary to the Bhavanopanishad, Bhaskararaya explains that鈥搕hough Varahi be female鈥揝he is yet pitrirupa, as Her boar s face is male....
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