Shadakshari is also a form of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.  He is also known as Six Syllable Lokeswara.  The six syllables are “OM MANI PADME HUM” which is considered so efficacious that it has been carved on rock faces and sometimes chanted by devotees.  He is always decked with all sorts of ornaments.  He is white in colour, four armed, carrying a rosary in the right hand and a full blown lotus in the left.  The other two principal hands are raised to the chest with the palms enjoined in Namaskar Mudra with a round object known as “Jewel” which is regarded as a symbol of knowledge.

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