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10.1515/asia-2020-0013

Jan Westerhoff: The Golden Age of Indian Philosophy

Nov 21, 2020
Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
Birgit Kellner

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10.1017/s0041977x00012933

On attracting women and tantric initiation: Tilottamā and<i>Hevajratantra</i>, II, v. 38–47 and I, vii. 8–9

Oct 01, 1995
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Max Nihom

Among the well known stories of Indian mythology there is one relating how the god Mahādeva (Śiva) became four-faced and how Indra acquired a thousand eyes. When the divine maiden (divyakanyā) Tilottamā circumambulated the gods, the eyes of all save Pitāamaha (Brahmā) followed her, whence the multiplication of faces and eyes. Indeed, the great epic relates that upon orders from Brahmā, she, consisting of a mass of gems (ratnasaṃghātamayī), was originally fashioned by Viśvakarman. In Indian mythology the figure of Tilottamā is therefore that of the beauty of woman incarnate.