14th century, Tibet, Suvarnamatsya, gilt copper, 22,9 cm, photo: courtesy of Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet Volume Two, Visual Dharma Publications, Hong Kong, p. 1043 pl. 261B, Potala Collection, Bla ma lha khang inventory nº 835, Lhasa (Tibet).
This female character is the embodiment of the auspicious symbol called suvarnamatsya (made of two goldfish placed vertically and facing each other). She stands on one foot like a dakini, baring her fangs and holding a ribbon in her right hand and a long-nosed fish in the other.
14th-15th century, Tibet, Pitadipta, gilt copper, 28,4 cm, photo as before, p. 1052 pl. 266A, Potala Collection, Sa gsum lha khang inventory nº 1174, Lhasa (Tibet).
Pitadipta is one of the eight goddesses on the lotus petals of a Kalachakra mandala. She has four heads and eight hands, in which she holds a drum, a jewel, a flute, a conch shell (right hands), a (broken) large kettle drum, cymbals, a small kettle drum, and another instrument (left hands).
16th century, Tibet, Parnashabari, gilt copper with turquoise, lapis lazuli and other stones, 30 cm, photo as before, p. 1071 pl. 275B, at the Gser khang lha khang in the Bri gung mthil (Drigung Thil) monastery (Tibet).
A striking image of Parnashabari/Parnashavari, ‘the Wild Leafy One’, in her six-arm form. She holds an arrow, a (missing axe), a vajra sceptre pointing to her heart in her right hands, a (missing) bow, a fan of leaves with fruit and flowers, a lasso in the left ones. She has a yakshi appearance, with three heads, a smiling one, a semi-wrathful one, a wrathful one, each with three eyes and red hair, dressed in a lower garment made of leaves and bedecked with stone-inlaid jewellery and a matching crown. See more on Parnashavari