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The '''eight wrathful females''' or '''eight gaurima''' (Skt. gaurī; Tib. གཽ་རི་མ་བརྒྱད་,  ''gaurima gyé''; [[Wyl.]] ''gau ri ma brgyad'')<noinclude> are counted among the mandala of the [[fifty-eight wrathful deities]]. They</noinclude> are:
The '''eight wrathful females''' or '''eight gaurima''' (Skt. gaurī; Tib. གཽ་རི་མ་བརྒྱད་,  ''gaurima gyé''; [[Wyl.]] ''gau ri ma brgyad'')<noinclude> are counted among the mandala of the [[fifty-eight wrathful deities]]. They</noinclude> are:


#Gauri (Skt. Gaurī; Wyl. ''ko'u ri'')
#Gauri (Skt. Gaurī;<ref> Unless marked with an asterisk, the Sanskrit has been attested in various tantras translated for 84.000</ref> Wyl. ''ko'u ri''), the white female (''dkar mo'')<ref>The translations into Tibetan are taken from [[Longchenpa]]'s [[Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions]]</ref>
#Pukkasi (Skt. Pukkasī; Wyl. ''pus ka si'')
#Pukkasi (Skt. Pukkasī; Wyl. ''pus ka si''), (''sbos mo'')
#Chaurimatrika (Skt. Caurī; Wyl. ''tso'u ri'')
#Chauri (Skt. Caurī; Wyl. ''tso'u ri''), the female thief (''chom rkun ma'')
#Ghasmari (Skt. Ghasmarī; Wyl. ''kas ma ri'')
#Ghasmari (Skt. Ghasmarī; Wyl. ''kas ma ri''), (''sme sha can'')  
#Pramoha (Skt. Pramohā; Wyl. ''pra mo'')
#Pramoha (Skt. Pramohā; Wyl. ''pra mo''), the utterly bewildered female (''rab tu rmongs ma'')
#Chandali (Skt. Caṇḍālī; Wyl. ''tsan dha li'')
#Chandali (Skt. Caṇḍālī; Wyl. ''tsan dha li''), the fierce woman (''gtum mo'')
#Vetali (Skt. Vetālī; Wyl. ''be'e ta li'')
#Vetali (Skt. Vetālī; Wyl. ''be'e ta li''), the zombie (''ro langs ma'')  
#Shmashani (Skt. Śmaśānī; Wyl. ''sme sha ni'')
#Shmashani (Skt. Śmaśānī; Wyl. ''sme sha ni''), female dweller of charnel grounds (''dur khrod ma'')


==Notes==
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[[Category: Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category: Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category:Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities]]
[[Category:Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]

Revision as of 09:52, 7 October 2022

The eight wrathful females or eight gaurima (Skt. gaurī; Tib. གཽ་རི་མ་བརྒྱད་, gaurima gyé; Wyl. gau ri ma brgyad) are counted among the mandala of the fifty-eight wrathful deities. They are:

  1. Gauri (Skt. Gaurī;[1] Wyl. ko'u ri), the white female (dkar mo)[2]
  2. Pukkasi (Skt. Pukkasī; Wyl. pus ka si), (sbos mo)
  3. Chauri (Skt. Caurī; Wyl. tso'u ri), the female thief (chom rkun ma)
  4. Ghasmari (Skt. Ghasmarī; Wyl. kas ma ri), (sme sha can)
  5. Pramoha (Skt. Pramohā; Wyl. pra mo), the utterly bewildered female (rab tu rmongs ma)
  6. Chandali (Skt. Caṇḍālī; Wyl. tsan dha li), the fierce woman (gtum mo)
  7. Vetali (Skt. Vetālī; Wyl. be'e ta li), the zombie (ro langs ma)
  8. Shmashani (Skt. Śmaśānī; Wyl. sme sha ni), female dweller of charnel grounds (dur khrod ma)

Notes

  1. Unless marked with an asterisk, the Sanskrit has been attested in various tantras translated for 84.000
  2. The translations into Tibetan are taken from Longchenpa's Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions