chinnamastādhyānam

Twenty-two verses of meditation on Chinnamasta, set out by the text's own headings as four separate meditations, the third on the lotus of the navel and the fourth on the complete form. The first is the one by which the image is generally fixed, and it is not softened anywhere: standing in the archer's stance, holding her own severed head and the chopper, clothed in the directions, drinking with gladness the stream of nectar-blood from her own trunk, a crest-jewel bound with a snake, three-eyed, a blue lotus at the heart, standing firm above Kama and Rati, and red as the hibiscus. The later verses add the two attendants who drink at either side, and the loosened hair, and the many flowers.