This the mUlamantra of a deity from the yoginItantra period. If you did not have much specific knowledge of the history of yoginItantra-s would you guess who the deity is and which sampradAya the mantra comes from?
The same tantra gives the following dhyAna of its deity along with the 4 yoginI-s.
He is described as having 4 heads, with 3 eyes, of blue color, very fierce, stationed on a corpse with with a garland of skulls, holding a skull, a skull-topped brand, a bow and arrows. The 4 yoginI-s accompanying him are pAtanI of silvery blue color; mAraNI emerald white color
AkarShaNI or red white color and narteshvarI of yellow white color, each 4 armed with the described weapons. The tantra is the vajraDAka-tantra a bauddha yoginItantra and the central deity being described there is vajraDAka who is called a tathAgatha. Otherwise the iconography is
purely that of a bhairava from shaiva yoginI tantra. Then mUlamantra cited at the head of this thread is mostly agnostic & would apply entirely for such a bhairava. The notable element is the 4 face and 4 yoginI-s. This differed from a comparable bhairava-srotas tradition & was
more aligned with the tumburu-chaturbhaginI tradition of the shaiva vAmasrotas. The 4 sisters are similar worshipped surrounding rudra as tumburu in that tradition. Finally, just as in the shaiva world we have the shAmbhava and shAkta divisions centering on shiva or shakti here
too a variant replaces vajraDAka in the center with the female deity his shakti mahAmAyA. This is just 1 of numerous examples of how the nAstika-s wholescale adopted shaiva traditions much like some modern scientists plagiarize others work and claim it to be their own.

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