Book Title: Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 02 Author(s): H H Wilson Publisher: Trubner and Company LondonPage 22
________________ 12 NOTICE OF CHANA, MANIBHAVA, the King of sages and the Pure VAJRASATTWA', preserve you in your sojourn in the world; may Srí PRAJNÁ, VAJRADHÁTWí, the all-bountiful holy Táná, and the rest?, be propitious to you - I adore them. 2. May the goddesses SAMPAT PRADÁ, GANAPATIHŘIDAYA, VAJRAVIDRÁVINI, USHŃÍSHÁRPAÑA, KIÍivARAVADANÁ, GRAHAMÁTRIKÁ, KOTILAKSHÁKSHI, with her ? These, as will have been seen by the preceding dissertation of Mr. Hodgson, are the personages of the Aiswarika, or Theistical pantheon--the Adi Buddha, or self-existent original Creator —the five Dhyani Buddhas, under other appellations, corresponding severally to AMITÁBIA, AMOGHASIDDIIA, AKSHOBIIYA, VairoCIIANA, and RATNASAMBILAVA (as in As. Res. XVI, p. 411), and a sixth Buddha, VAJRASATTWA, emanating from Adi Buddha — the secondary agent in the creation of immaterial substances - the other five being charged with the creation of material bodies. [Burnouf, "Introduction", 525. W. Wassiljew, "Der Buddhismus", St. Petersburg: 1860, I, p. 205 f.] These female divinities are, in the vulgar Aiswarika system, the wives of Adi Buddha and the Dhyani Buddhas. The powers of inert matter are typified by a Goddess in the Swábhávika system; but neither in that nor the primitive Aiswarika doctrine are the intellectual Essences of the divine Buddhas linked to female forms -- either literally or figuratively, as their Śaktis, or active energies. The complete list of these Goddesses, and their appropriation, are specified by Mr. Hodgson, as follows: Ádi BUDDIA, his Wife Prajná. VAIROCIJANA, VAJRADIÁTwi. AKSHOBIIYA, LOCHANA. RATNASAMBHAVA, MÁMUKUI. AMITABHA, PÁNÞARÁ. AMOGHA-SIDDIIA, TÁRÁ. VAJRASATTWA, VAJRASATTWÁTMIKÁ.Page Navigation
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