Ek JATE statue

Ekajati or Ekajata is one of the most powerful goddesses in the Vajrayanic Pantheon. If a man listens to her mantra, he is at once freed from all obstacles, and is attended always with good fortune, his enemies are destroyed, and he becomes religiously inclined. Ekajata is a ferocious form of Tara. In simplest form, she is represented seated, holding in her two hands the chopper and skull cup, and in her crown is an image of Akshyobhya. In other form she is represented with four to twenty four arms. She is generally standing on her left foot and her right ankle stepping on corpses. She has the third eye, she is laughing horribly with prominent teeth, and protruding tongue. Her eyes are red and round. Her hips are covered by a tiger skin, and she wears a long garland of heads. If painted her color is clue. She is dwarf and corpulent. If she has four arms, her symbols are sword, knife, blue lotus and a skull cup.