The Dorje the Lamaic Sceptre

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O nobly-born, the Great Glorious Buddha-Heruka,! dark- brown of colour; with three heads, six hands, and four

red, the central, dark-brown; the body emitting flames of radiance ; the nine eyes widely opened, in terrifying gaze; the eyebrows quivering like lightning; the protruding teeth glistening and set over one another; giving vent to sonorous utterances of ‘a-la-la’ and ‘ha-ha’, and piercing whistling sounds; the hair of a reddish-yellow colour, standing on end, and emitting radiance; the heads adorned with dried [human]

first of the right hands holding a wheel, the middle one, a sword, the last one, a battle-axe; the first of the left hands,

share; his body embraced by the Mother, Buddha-Kroti- shaurima,” her right hand clinging to his neck and her left putting to his mouth a red shell [filled with blood], [making]

a rumbling sound as loud as thunder; [emanating from the two

eagles,® will come forth from within thine own brain and shine vividly upon thee. Fear that not. Be not awed. Know it to be the embodiment of thine own intellect. As it is thine own tutelary deity, be not terrified. Be not afraid, for in reality it is the Bhagavan Vairochana, the Father-Mother. Simultaneously with the recognition, liberation will be ob- tained: if they be recognized, merging [thyself], in at-one-

ment, into the tutelary deity, Buddhahood in the Sambhoga- Kaya will be won. [THE NINTH DAY]

But if one flee from them, through awe and terror being begotten, then, on the Ninth Day, the blood-drinking [deities] of the Vajra Order will come to receive one. Thereupon, the setting-face-to-face is, calling the deceased by name, thus:

drinking Vajra Order named the Bhagavan Vajra-Heruka, dark-blue in colour; with three faces, six hands, and four feet

axe; in the first of the left, a bell, in the middle [one],

embraced by the Mother Vajra-Krotishaurima, her right

red shell [filled with blood], will issue from the eastern quarter of thy brain and come to shine upon thee. Fear it not. Be not terrified. Be not awed. Know it to be the embodiment of thine own intellect. As it is thine own tutelary deity, be

Sattva, the Father and Mother. Believe in them. Recogniz- ing them, liberation will be obtained at once. By so pro- claiming [them], knowing them to be tutelary deities, merging