Chapter 36 - The Pūjā (worship) of the Goddess Vārāhī

After hearing the first portion of the Vārāhī Tantra revealed by Bhairava, the Goddess enquires about the Vārāhīpañcāṅga, "the five-limbed worship of Vārāhī" (v. 1).

In response to the Goddess, Bhairava reveals the Vārāhīpañcāṅga, praising Mahāmāyā, who is called Vārāhī. She is here described with a boar's face; very wrathful and terrible; shining as a thousand suns; resembling the bandhūka flower and the pomegranate blossom. She is portrayed as a youth intoxicated with passion, with full and prominent breasts; all her limbs are adorned by ornaments and she wears a garland of severed heads; she has three red and terrifying eyes, and fearful tusks. She has four or eight arms: when she is four-armed, she carries a hala, a muśala, a kāṭya (?) and shows the varadamudrā. She seats on a red lotus on top of a preta. The Goddess is delighted by offerings of meat and wine (1-11).

The yantra of Vārāhī is described in verses 12-19.

Verses 20-34 prescribe various visualizations of the Goddess according to the different prayogas.

Thus after worshipping Vārāhī with dhyāna, offerings of meat and wine, japa, homa and bali (vv.35-36), one should pay homage to her with the praṇāmamantra given in verses 37-40. To conclude, one should worship a kumārī. Having worshipped the Goddess in this way, one pleases her.