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whose life. In the essence of that life, a fire blazed, and body and life were burned away like ashes. May they become sentient beings in the Avīci hell, so he prayed and swore. Then, the glorious Black Goddess, having obtained power and blessings, and becoming a keeper of vows, the retinue, including Indra, each offered their own ornaments and implements. Thus, Indra offered the vajra. Brahma offered the victory banner of the peacock. Vishnu offered the victory banner of the sun and moon. The son of Vaishravana offered the victory banner of the lion. The gods and spirits of the sky offered bells. The dragon kings offered a handle adorned with snakes. The earth lord Pātāla offered the victory banner of the tiger. The rakshasas and flesh-eaters offered skull rosaries, and implements of blood and fat. The father of demons offered the divination board, the 'u shu de' of the btsan spirits, and the Ḍākinīs offered bags of disease. Thus, the retinue each offered their own ornaments, implements, and so forth, and the praisers also praised her. That goddess became unrivaled in the three realms. The first chapter, the introduction, from the Tantra of the Secret Life-Vessel of the Glorious Goddess Cittā. Then, the Lord of Secrets addressed the Bhagavan thus: Bhagavan, Sugata, for the sake of the Buddha's teachings enduring for a long time, please teach the samadhi of the glorious goddess, and the mantra for invoking and offering, and the image that is her support, and the binding, the expulsion, the killing, the gathering of the tantric mantras, and the mandala of accomplishment, and the accomplished substances, and the mantra for fixing the phurba, and the cutting with weapons and the performance of fire offerings, and the casting of ransom effigies, and the subjugation, and the method for causing hailstorms. The Bhagavan spoke: Lord of Secrets, the goddess's samadhi is: ཡྂ་སྥ་ར་ཎ་རྂ་ཨགྣེ་ཛྭ་ལ་རྂ་ (Tibetan, Sanskrit Devanagari, Sanskrit Romanization, Chinese literal meaning). In the midst of fire and wind, generate a palace of skulls: བྷྲཱུྂ་བི་ཤཝ་བི་ཤུདྡྷ་ཀ་པཱ་ལ་ཧཱུྂ (Tibetan, Sanskrit Devanagari, Sanskrit Romanization, Chinese literal meaning). Inside that, with གྷོ་ར་ཏི་ག་ར་པ་ཏ་ཧཱུྂ (Tibetan, Sanskrit Devanagari, Sanskrit Romanization, Chinese literal meaning), generate an iron mule-horse. Above that, the joining of the letter ma is ཨོྂ་ནག་མོ་ དུནྟིང་ལྂ་དུནྟིང་བྷྱོ་ (Tibetan, Sanskrit Devanagari, Sanskrit Romanization, Chinese literal meaning), therefore the Black Goddess is: her body color is dark blue-black, her hair is coiled from right to left. Opening her mouth, revealing her fangs.