The Cult of Tara

158 MAGIC AND RITUAL IN TIBET
3) The most excellent of smells
in all the worldly realms of the ten directions
(all that is blissful to the hearts of the Conquerors)
are emanated as hosts of the Lady Diamond Smell;
and these we offer up to the hosts of glorious gurus.
OM GURU-MANDALA-DEVATA VAJRA-GANDHA PRATlC­
CHA HUM SVAHA!
4) The most excellent of tastes
in all the worldly realms of the ten directions
(all that is delicious to the tongues of the Conquerors)
are emanated as hosts of the Lady Diamond Taste;
and these we offer up to the hosts of glorious gurus.
OM GURU-MANDALA-DEVATA VAJRA-RASYA PRATlC­
CHA HUM SVAHA!
5) The most excellent of tangibles
in all the worldly realms of the ten directions
(all that is soft to the bodies of the Conquerors)
are emanated as hosts of the Lady Diamond Tangible;
and these we offer up to the hosts of glorious gurus.
OM GURU-MANDALA-DEVATA VAJRA-SPARSA PRATlC­
CHA HUM SVAHA!
These five sense gratifications, again, may be identified in the ritual
with the five fleshes (cow, elephant, horse, dog, and human flesh)
or the five nectars (urine, execrment, semen, flesh, and blood), and
this visualization might be performed as follows: 214
Next there are before me circles of wind and fire surmounted
by three heads, placed on which [as on a tripod] is the syllable
A; this transforms into a skull bowl, inside of which are GO [GO
"cow"], KU [KUkkura "dog"], NA [NAra "man"], HA [HAstin
"elephant"], and DA [DAmya "horse"]; these transform into the
five fleshes. And inside it also are VI [Vlt "excrement"], MU
[MUtra "urine"], SU [SUkra "semen"], MA [MAmsa "flesh"], and
RA [RAkta "blood"]; these transform into the five nectars. Each
is marked with its respective seed and has an OM above it, cleansing
its impurities.
From an AH there arises a moon, above which is a HUM, and
from that latter there is formed a diamond skull staff which
points downward to seal the top.
The wind kindles the fire, and the stream of those substances
(boiling together into a single taste, loonking like the surface of