The dark Chinnamastā is shown seated in padmāsana (lotus posture),
resplendent on a lotus, flanked by two sky-clad yoginīs wielding swords in
their right hands, and skull-cups in their left. Her severed head from self-
decapitation rests in a gold salver in her upper left hand. In her upper right
hand she holds a cobra, and in her lower left and right hands, she holds a
skull-cup and a lotus respectively. She wears a garland of severed heads and
a sacred thread. A stream of blood flows upward from the neck of her severed
head and enters her mouth. Similarly streams of blood enter the mouths of the
two yoginīs. The lotus she sits on hovers over Rati (goddess of desire) and
Kāma (god of desire), who are in reverse (viparīta) sexual union.