The Ganapati Tantra

ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བདག་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།

The Ganapati Tantra

ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བདག་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།

Chapter 11: Great Gaṇapati’s Maṇdala

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Glorious Great Gaṇapati is Very fierce with a fierce grimace. He has the heart of a buddha, the head of an animal, And the face of a young elephant
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With three eyes and four tusks. He has four arms, four feet, and bears a large nāga. The first hand holds a white tusk, and The hand below it holds a noose. The left hands
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Hold a battle-axe and three-pointed khaṭvāṅga. He is dark blue and has a huge belly. This statue of Gaṇapati should be cast In molten bell metal and bronze.
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Consecrate it on a day during Puṣya. For the meditation and practice, Choose a location to construct the maṇḍala And draw a maṇḍala with nine sections.
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Include the gates and porticos. Draw a lotus with eight petals in the middle on which Gaṇapati tramples the target of the rite. He is seated on a moon disk
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In nondual union with his consort. Her name is Arcikarī, And she is known as the Vajra Sow-Faced One. She holds a battle-axe and a cup
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Filled with blood that she offers to her lord.
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The Lord of the Three Realms is in the eastern section, which is yellow. He holds a radish and a sword.
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The great yakṣa Vajratuṇḍa is in the southern section, which is blue. He has the face of Mahādeva, holds a mace and hammer, and is black.
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The yakṣa king Lord of Clouds is in the western section, which is red. He is red and holds a noose and a billowing cloud full of water.
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The yakṣa lord Abode of Wealth is in the northern section, which is green. He is green and holds a mace and a jeweled khaṭvāṅga.
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Vināyaka, the Lord of Obstructing Beings, is in the northeastern section, which is white. He has the face of an elephant, holds a trident and a radish, and is black.
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Rudra, Lord of Pretas, is in the southeast section, which is red. He holds an axe and an intact skull, and he is black.
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Cloud Light is in the southwest section, which is black. He holds a billowing cloud with a flashing thunderbolt beneath it with both hands.
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Curved Trunk Vināyaka, the King of Obstructing Beings, has an elephant trunk and is in the northwest section, which is black. He holds a trident and a dry skull that has a radish inside and is full of flesh.
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The eight nāga kings who obey these deities are the nāga kings Abala, Varuṇa, Śaṅkhapāla, Takṣaka, Kulika, Ananta, Padma, and Mahāpadma.
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The great king Dhṛtarāṣṭra is at the eastern gate, Virūḍhaka is at the southern gate, Virūpākṣa is at the western gate, and Vaiśravaṇa is at the northern gate. The colors of their bodies are white, blue, red, and green, respectively, and each of them holds a precious jewel and a sword. Their consorts are not depicted.
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Make a wax effigy of the enemy that is thin, black, and has disheveled hair, and place it inside a triangular killing maṇḍala to the northeast of the drawing. Smear it with sesame oil, write the family name in the center, place it there, and tie a cord made from the hair of a corpse around its neck.
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After you have done that, set up bali offerings of laḍḍu and radishes for each of the eight great yakṣas as well as red bali offerings that contain fish and onions for each of the eight great yakṣas. Prepare a single large bali offering for the eight great nāgas and one for each of the four great kings. If one cannot afford that, prepare a single large bali. Present divine food offerings to each of them. One should also set out wrathful substances such as a wolf’s skull, black cumin, mustard seed, white mustard seed, and black mustard seed.

English translation published by 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha (https://84000.co), CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Translated by Adam C. Krug.

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