2022
Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Paper
40 x 30 cm / 308 gsm / 400 dpi



A drawing depicting the inner worship of the trident with its retinue of iconic forms.

Textual Source:
”The meditator should install the three Bhairavas and the three Goddesses as follows: Bhairavasadbhāva on the central lotus, Ratiśekhara on the lotus to his right, and Navātman on the lotus to his left. Then Parā, benevolent and beautiful, white as the full moon on the central lotus, Parāparā on her right, red and somewhat ferocious but not terrifying, and Aparā on the lotus of the cuspid on her left, utterly terrifying in the extremity of rage, and red-black.”
~ Tantrāloka 15/323b-329b

Acknowledgements Image 8,9:
An image created based on Tantrāloka 15/295c-329b, translated and interpreted by Alexis Sanderson in Maṇḍala and Āgamic Identity in the Trika of Kashmir (with illustration by Stephanie Sanderson), incorporating the Trika Goddesses and Kālasaṃkarṣiṇī (Śūleśvarī).