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A Cakravartin, or Universal Monarch, sits in lalitāsana, with left leg pendent, on two fierce demons on a rock. He is cross-eyed and has a fierce expression, He is of a Central Asian type, has almond eyes, a pointed chin, a wide face, pointed ears, and is very hairy. He wears full armor, but has a headdress instead of a helmet. He holds a halberd just below the blade in his left hand, while the handle rests on the rock; his right hand, open palm outward, is behind the halberd.
Behind him, one extending her head to the right and the other extending hers to the left, are two female attendants. To the left, is a man with a reddish beard, holding a blank book and two writing brushes. Opposite him is a hairy demon, light brown in color, with a large, red, open mouth; his right hand is upraised and his left is holding a tall banner. He is naked except for a tiger skin and a scarf around his loins. In front of him, a bearded king is seated on a chair, wearing a hat. On his robe, is the ya symbol. His hands are crossed in front, thumb touching thumb. To his left, is a female attendant. Opposite him, bowing to the waist before him, is an armored warrior, bearded, holding a bow in his left hand, and pointing backward with his right. At the top, are remnants of a blue background. The Cakravartin has a pale blue halo. All the people in the picture are painted various shades of flesh color. The demon to the left on whom the Cakravartin is sitting has red hair. The rock is shaded with ink. The hair is painted black in every case except as noted above. The two demons are grey. The armor is slightly colored and the halberd and banner have gold staves; the rest is in outline.

大聖三界轉輪王眾。 The Great Holy King who turns the Wheel in the Three Worlds, with his retinue.

Hāriti is seated in lalitāsana on a large dais, her right leg pendent resting on a lotus; an empty lotus awaits her left foot. She holds a pomegranate in her right hand, and her youngest son, Piṅgalā, in her left. He is chubby and round-faced and leans out over his mother's restraining arm, a round fan in his left hand. She wears flowing robes and a long scarf which whirls into one large circle behind her head and two smaller ones to right and left, forming a kind of halo. Her sleeves have ruffles at the elbow, from which long undersleeves extend to the wrists. She wears a headdress of considerable elaborateness, the highest part of which is at the back, and earrings, necklace, anklets, girdle, etc. Her feet are bare.
One boy, wearing a small apron tied behind above his little bare buttocks, climbs up over Hāriti's right foot, and another boy, more fully dressed, is kneeling on his left knee, his right knee bent, and leaning forward either to help his brother or bent on mischief, thinking to push his mother's foot and upset the little climber.
Above hangs a canopy with pendent streamers and garlands, and behind Hāriti and the two attendants to right and left of her is a four-fold screen which stands very high, depicting waves. The background above the screen was once blue, of which a suggestion remains at the very top of the picture.
To Hāriti's proper left stands an attendant, holding a small boy in her arms; while to the right, a somewhat larger attendant holds what seems to be a string, on the upper end of which is a large fan with a painting of birds and flowers on it. The string, held in her right hand, turns obliquely in Hāriti's direction and is held also, farther down, by her left hand, which is covered by her long sleeve. In front of the attendant holding the child, is a wet-nurse, seated on the floor, giving her breast to another boy. Opposite her and in front of the attendant with the fan, stands a nurse holding a child in her arms and kissing him. Slightly to the right of the centre, in the immediate foreground, is a fifth nurse, kneeling on her right knee, holding out a towel in both hands toward a little boy in overalls, who has both hands over his head. Evidently he is not overdesirous of having his face washed. Behind the boy in overalls, to the left, a boy with an extremely large head is reclining on a pillow, fast asleep. On the floor in front of him is a hobby horse. On the other side, behind the kneeling attendant and in front of the wet-nurse, is a little boy hugging a dog.
The whole scene is a delightful bit of genre painting, introduced quite naturally as a part of the composition and as a part of the iconography. There is very little coloring in this picture, which is perhaps unfinished. The hair and flesh are painted in, and the jewelry is also colored, though but faintly, except for a part of Hāriti's headdress. The waves on the screen are shaded with ink, and the sky above is a pale yellow. The panelling of the screen was once blue. It is possible that certain colors have faded or been washed away.

訶梨帝母眾。 Mother Hāriti and her entourage.

The divinity sits in mahārājalīlā āsana on a white lotus edged with crimson, with designs in maroon at the bases of the petals. He has three haloes. The outer one is white, edged with gold; the round one behind the body is pale blue, edged with flames, which are yellow ending in red points; the one behind the head, which is round or oval, is of a slightly darker blue and is edged with the same kind of flames. On its circumference, above the tip of the divinity's crown, is a tripartite jewel. The crown is very elaborate and bears a seated image of the dhyani Buddha Amitābha. Cintāmani-cakra is gold in color and has the ūrṇā. He is adorned with all the royal jewelry—earrings, necklace, girdle, kneelets, armlets, bracelets, anklets, etc.
The attributes and mudrās are:
left hand
1. Rests on rock standing for Mount Potalaka
2. Wheel
3. Long-stemmed pale maroon lotus, holding a tripartite pale blue jewel edged with blue flames
right hand
1. Raised to cheek
2. Tripartite red jewel edged with red flames
3. Piece of jewelry (should be a rosary)
Cintāmani-cakra Avalokiteśvara wears a dark pink skirt with red folds, a white scarf and a pale maroon scarf. On his left shoulder is a third scarf, orange in color, with red folds. From his crown on each side flow pink scarves with red folds. Red ribbons hang from the crown in loops over his forehead. His eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth, as well as the hand resting against the cheek, seem to have been retouched, Above is a canopy of Bao Xiang Hua (宝相花 a kind of conventionalized lotus), pink, maroon, blue and other colors, and two pale maroon lotuses, with hanging gold garlands.
In the foreground, are four female attendants. Farthest to the right is a lady kneeling on her left knee, her head turned to the left, with her two index fingers raised touching each other. Red flames issue from their point of juncture. She is dressed in pale pinks and maroons. The lotus on which she kneels is yellow and her halo is pale green, Next to her, farther to the left, is another lady kneeling on her right knee on a pink lotus edged with red. Her dress is a pale green-yellow. She holds a conch shell in both hands. To the left, in a position corresponding to that of the lady just described, is another, seated on a pink lotus edged with maroon, Her head is turned away from the center and she holds a tray of pink lotus flowers in both hands. She is dressed in pale pink and has a pale green halo. The painting is worn and stained where the lower part of her body should be. Behind her, farther to the left, in a position corresponding to that of the first of the four, is another attendant, seated facing toward the center, with both knees raised. The lotus under her is pink, and she wears a pink skirt with a white ruffled border and a pale yellowish green over-garment. Her head, is seen in profile with a somewhat Jewish nose in evidence. Each of the four has the ūrṇā.

南无如意輪菩薩。 Adoration to the Bodhisattva Cintāmani-cakra.

Avalokiteśvara here has some of the characteristics of a dragon queen : three human heads, each with a third eye, six arms and two legs. Above her human heads are seven snakes' heads, each crested with a jewel; and she has a long snake's tail. She wears bracelets, armlets, anklets, a necklace, and a girdle composed of small snakes. Her earrings, however, are of gold. Over her left shoulder is slung a snake's skin. She wears an elaborate gold crown in which is a seated image of her dhyana Buddha, Amitābha. Her flesh is uncolored. She wears a short red skirt, with the skin of some animal over it as a girdle, above which is a girdle of snakes.
She stands on a white lotus, the petals of which are edged with crimson. The lotus rests on crowds of snakes.
The divinity has a large red halo edged with colorless flames, Within the halo are eight Buddhas (standing for past, present, and future?), each holding an object closely resembling a human hand. At the top of the halo is a jewel. Above is a colorless canopy of three flowers, with hanging garlands.
The dragon-queen Avalokiteśvara is attended by four Nāgini, the two upper ones with seven snakes heads each, and the two lower with three only. The one to the proper upper left of the queen, holds a spray of flowers in her right hand and a snake in her left. Her companion, somewhat lower in the picture, holds a snake in her left hand and makes a mudrā with her right. Of those to the proper right of the queen, the upper one makes a mudrā with her left hand, while her right is hidden; the lower one holds a sword in her right hand and a snake in her left.
Below in the center is a three-legged man lying on his back, while to each side are three kneeling figures.
The attributes and mudrās are:
left hand
1. Makes a mudrā with raised index finger
2. Spray of flowers
3. Bow
right hand
1. Three or five-pronged vajra, raised aloft
2. Naked sword
3. Arrow

南无曁愚梨觀音。 Adoration to Janguli Avalokiteśvara
Janguli is a Tantric manifestation of Avalokiteśvara and a form of Tara. She is a goddess who dispels poison, including snake venom.