The Ten Wrathful Ones
The Ten Wrathful Ones (Skt. daśakrodha; Tib. ཁྲོ་བོ་བཅུ་, trowo chu, Wyl. khro bo bcu) — the ten main deities in the mandala of Vajrakilaya, surrounding the main deity in each of the ten directions.
- Humkaara (Skt. Hūṃkāra, Tib. ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་) in union with Dorje Drachin (Resounding Vajra, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྒྲ་འབྱིན, Wyl. rdo rje sgra 'byin ma, Skt. Śābdavajra), at the zenith
- Krodhavijaya (Tib. རྣམ་རྒྱལ ; Wyl. rnam rgyal) in union with Dorje Nyema (Haughty Vajra, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙ྄ེམས་མ), in the east
- Niladanda (Skt. Nīladaṇḍa, Tib. དབྱུག་སྔོན་པོ, Wyl. dbyug pa sngon po) in union with Dorje Dermo (Vajra Claw, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྡེར་མོ, Wyl. rdo rje sder mo), in the south-east
- Yamantaka (Skt. Yamāntaka , Tib. གཤིན་རྗེ, Wyl. gshin rje gshed) in union with Durtrö Dakmo, or Dorje Durtrö Dak (Lady of the Charnel Ground, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་དུར་ཁྲོད་བདག, Skt. Śmāśānikā), in the south
- Arya Achala (Skt. Ārya Acala, Tib. མི་གཡོ་བ; Wyl. mi g.yo ba) in union with Dorje Tünkhung (Vajra Mortar, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུན་ཁུང, Skt. Vajramūśikā), in the south-west
- Hayagriva (Skt. Hayagrīva, Tib. རྟ་མགྲིན; Wyl. rta mgrin) in union with Dorje Tummo (Fierce Vajra, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུམ་མོ, Skt. Vajracaṇḍikā), in the west
- Aparajita (Skt. Aparājita, Tib. འདོད་རྒྱལ) in union with Dorje Danyem (Haughty Arrow Vajra, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་མདའ་སྙེམས, Wyl. rdo rje mda' snyems), in the north-west
- Amritakundali (Skt. Amṛtakuṇḍalī, Tib. བདུད་རྩི; Wyl. bdud rtsi 'khyil ba) in union with Dorje Lungchin Ma or Düdtsi Lungchin Ma (Wind Blowing Vajra, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་རླུང་འབྱིན་མ; Skt. Vāyuvegā), in the north
- Trilokavijaya (Skt. Amṛtakuṇḍalī, Tib. ཁམས་གསུམ) in union with Dorje Söché Ma (Vajra Slayer, རྡོ་རྗེ་གསོད་བྱེད་མ, gsod byed ma; Skt. Ghātakā), in the north-east
- Mahabala (Skt. Mahābala, Tib. སྟོབས་ཆེན) in union with Dorje Kulche Ma (Vajra Exhortation, TiB. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྐུལ་མ, Skt. Vajrāveśī), at the nadir