Eight wrathful females
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:
- Gauri (Skt. Gaurī;[1] Wyl. ko'u ri), the white female (dkar mo)[2]
- Pukkasi (Skt. Pukkasī; Wyl. pus ka si), (sbos mo)
- Chauri (Skt. Caurī; Wyl. tso'u ri), the female thief (chom rkun ma)
- Ghasmari (Skt. Ghasmarī; Wyl. kas ma ri), (sme sha can)
- Pramoha (Skt. Pramohā; Wyl. pra mo), the utterly bewildered female (rab tu rmongs ma)
- Chandali (Skt. Caṇḍālī; Wyl. tsan dha li), the fierce woman (gtum mo)
- Vetali (Skt. Vetālī; Wyl. be'e ta li), the zombie (ro langs ma)
- Shmashani (Skt. Śmaśānī; Wyl. sme sha ni), female dweller of charnel grounds (dur khrod ma)
Notes
- ↑ Unless marked with an asterisk, the Sanskrit has been attested in various tantras translated for 84.000
- ↑ The translations into Tibetan are taken from Longchenpa's Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions