“Mañjuśrī, the mother of the tathāgata family has four faces and eight hands. Her body is yellow like molten gold and in the prime of youth. Her main face is yellow, her right face is white, her left face is red, and her rear face is black. Each is marked on its crown with the four families and has three eyes. In her right hands she holds a wheel, an arrow, and a spear, while the lowermost hand is in the boon-granting gesture. In her left hands she holds an utpala flower, a bow, and a vajra hook, and she wields a lasso while making the threatening gesture. She sits in the vajra posture and is of dharmakāya nature.

“Mañjuśrī, this is her mantra:

“namo ratna-trayāya | namo ārya-jñāna-sāgarāya vairocana-vyūha-rājāya | tathāgatāya | arhate samyak-sambuddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ tāre tuttāre ture svāhā.

“With that, the entire tathāgata family makes offerings of flowers, lamps, incense, fragrances, and so on.

“Mañjuśrī, her rite is as follows. Make an effigy from corpse ash and the saturated earth beneath it, and into its heart insert the name ending with the two sets of syllables. Then recite this mantra:

“oṁ māraya māraya | kāraya kāraya | stambhaya stambhaya | jambhaya jambhaya. | hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ | laṁ laṁ laṁ laṁ laṁ.

“Say that and then bury the effigy at a crossroads.”