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देवतामूर्ति-प्रकरणम्
श्याम कान्ति वाला, पीले रंग की भृकुटी और पीली जटा वाला, जटा में चन्द्रमा धारण करने वाला, तक्षक और पुष्टिक नाम के सांपों का पैर में नूपुर पहनने वाला, दूसरा कालरूप महा भयंकर, बड़ा पराक्रमी, बड़ा उत्साह वाला, आठ भुजा वाला, महा बलवान् और शत्रु के सैन्य को त्रास देने वाले ऐसे अघोर देव के स्वरूप का इस भूतल पर स्थान है । वह बाँयी चार भुजाओं में खट्वाङ्ग, कपाल, ढाल और नागपाश ये चार शस्त्रों को धारण करने वाला है। दाहिनी चार भुजाओं . में त्रिशूल, परशु, खड्ग और दण्ड ये चार शस्त्र धारण करने वाला है।
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Aghor
Aghor has large and terriblé teeth and a fiercely dreadful face. A snake crowns his head. The three eyed deity wears a garland of skulls and kundala earrings composed of snakes. (6).
Snakes adorn his upper arms like an armlet (keyura) and form his necklace too, Even his upaveetam or 'sacred string is made up of snakes. The Gonasa snake girdles his hips and a garland of scorpions encircles his neck. ( 7 ).
Dark, like the blue lotus or like the flowers of a linseed plant (atsi-pushpa), and with tawny brows and tawny matted hair adorned with Shashank, the moon ( 8 ), Aghor wears the snakes : called Takshak and Pushtika around his ankles like anklets (noopur). The form of Aghor is eternal and timeless, and he appears as Kala itself. (The Supreme Spirit in the form of the Destroyer of the Universe). (9).
He possesses great valour, energy and strength, and has eight arms. Aghor strikes fear amongst enemy armies. Such is the Lord who dwells on earth. (10).
He possesses the Khatvanga club topped by a skull (regarded as Siva's weapon, the khatvanga is often carried by ascetics), a kapal or a cup made from a skull, a shield and a pasha (noose, fetter or cord) in his left hands. These are the four weapons in Aghor's left hands ( 11 ). The weapons or attributes held in his four right hands are a trident (trishul), an axe (parashu), a sword and the danda rod. (12).
