tumburu, the manifestation of rudra

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Following is a copy-paste from India-Forum.

 

The article is by a Tantric scholar who writes with the pen-name

Hauma Hamiddha.

 

Even though some Tantra-s find mention in the article, I post it

here as none of the Vama practices are discussed.

 

Tumburu Rudra is also spoken of in the mantra shastra work, the

Sharada Tilaka.

 

Rgds

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tumburu, the manifestation of rudra

>From the northern head of the terrible rudra, known as the vAmadeva

head, manifests the emanation of vAmadeva known as the four-faced

tumburu surrounded by his 4 sisters. From the four faces of tumburu

narrate the four great vAma tantras: 1) The frightening shirashCheda

(also known as the jayadratha yAmala. 2) the terrific vINAshikA. 3)

the mahAsaMmohana and 4) nayottara.

 

The shirashCheda tantra gives the following description of the

tumburu emanation of vAmadeva:

 

tumburu is the lord rudra himself and is called the called the great

fierce reptile, the crest jewel of all the devas adorning their

shikha (a cryptic allusion to the sahasrAra). He two aspects asakala

and sakala, the latter being described here. He has four energies

which reside in the cave of the heart of his universal

consciousness. They are shAntikalA, vidyAkalA, nivR^ittikalA and

pratiShThakalA. These corresspond to his four companion goddesses

jayA, vijayA, ajitA and aparAjitA who generate the phenomenal

universe, while he himself is the fifth and highest energy

shAntyatItakalA, which transcends all manifestation. He resides in

the abode of soma (saumyadhAma), which is full of the savour of

countless mantras. His entire body is illuminated by the circle of

his light and rays of the jewels of his many vidyAs. He smells

sweetly with the scent on many garlands and his body is smeared with

a blood-red anguent. He shows the mudra of the shaktipITha and his

maNDala is that of the chandradurdaNDa. He has 4 hands in which he

holds a lasso, a~nkusha, trident and varada mudra. His four faces

are white, red, yellow and black. His body is like the blazing light

of mount Meru. His front face is like that of a man whose lotus eyes

are blooming and is most beautiful. He wears an earring and its rays

cover his face with a network of light. His neck is like a precious

gem and his hand is adorned with a ruby and emerald ring. He wears

rubies and emeralds and his strong hips are raimented in a rich

Kashmiri cloth. From his mouth comes a deep sound like the rumble of

a thundercloud. Of his remaining faces one is that of a crocodile

and the two side ones are of birds singing sweetly. The atoms

emerging from his lotus feet is the bliss realized by the vIras. The

a~nkusha is the goad of the universe, the lasso is the abode of all

fetters that binds beings as they rise to higher levels or descend.

The trident he sports has for its three prongs persistance, origin

and destruction. He bestows all that people desires with the varada

mudra.

 

tumburu resides in the circle of the 14 powers and great fetters and

is surrounded by a host of female gaNas. His female attendents laugh

and yell horribly and their forms are hideous in appearance. He is

the great hero who can consume the entire universe with a mere twand

of his great bow. At the same time he is the source of all existence

and its protector. He is the cosmic breath, the great mahAkAla and

kAlagnirudra.

 

He sits on a lotus with 4 petals. On the eastern petal is seated

jayA, vijayA in the south, ajitA in the north and aparAjitA in the

western petal. These lovely goddess are his sisters and they

melodiously play on their vINAs.

 

When the Javan naval expedition had ravaged Cambodia and conquered

it, the prince jayavarman II was taken captive to Java. There he met

a learned brAhmaNa from India named hiraNyadAman who was a great

exponent of the tantras of the vAmasrota. He taught the 4 tumbura

tantras mentioned above to shivakaivalya, the purohita of jayavarman

and performed a rite according to the vINAshikhA tantra to confer

certain siddhis on the prince jayavarman II. It is said that through

the yoga of the tantra rudra's emanation tumburu courses through the

path of pi~ngalA nerve and bestows powers to perform terrific deeds

(raudrakarman) and then tumburu courses through the iDA nerve track

and gives the ability to perform "bright deeds" shuchikarman. With

these siddhis the prince jayavarman is said to have waged war for 12

years and finally routed the Javan garrison in 802 AC. Having

liberated the kingdom of Cambodia and raised it to great glory and

founded his impregnable capital of Hariharalaya (the city of shiva

and viShNu). It was from this impregnable base that the Angkor

empire founded by jayavarman II held sway for almost 600 years with

only a single military defeat in this entire period. At the time of

jayavarman's coronation at Hariharalaya, hiraNyadAman recited the 4

tantras and shivakaivalya wrote all of them down. The tantras of the

vAmasrota learned by shivakaivalya were also used in the rites

involved in the consecration of the great shiva temple with a 1000

li~ngas at Phnom Kulen built by jayavarman II.

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