Not endorsing the deity id but some comments. The dice prognostication with 64 omens reappears in the Turkic Irk bitig suggesting it remained popular in central Asia over a period. There are earlier dice of similar type in kuShANa sites from central Asia:
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The reference to the plurality of marut-s and not in the sense of vAyu is notable here. I 've hence considered this a late survival of an archaic tradition that lost currency in "middle India". The garlic manuscript is evidently a recension of the lAshUNa-kalpa or the gandha-maha
i.e., the annual stench festival that was described in the medical kAshyapa saMhitA. See: manasataramgini.wordpress.com
We suspect the Arya-s & eastern Iranian-s had shared garlic taboo going back to their days on the steppe & possibly related to the purity of the hotR^i & adhvaryu
We suspect the Arya-s & eastern Iranian-s had shared garlic taboo going back to their days on the steppe & possibly related to the purity of the hotR^i & adhvaryu
The dice prognostication incantation to a goddess named vimalA & mAli, is IMO an important early attestation of the key pUrvAMnAya goddess who is central to that system as the one who takes the form of the garland of letters & the consort of the symmetric shabdarAshI bhairava
Her name adorns the title of the famous pUrvAMnAya-tantra mAlinIvijaya -- the uttarabhAga of which was the focus of abhinavagupta's development of the system. Notably, he opens his ma~NgalAcharaNa of the commentary on the mAlinIvijaya with the phrase vimala-kalAshraya:
the vimala-kala is the supreme kala of the system, standing over the 16 basic kala-s, and identified with the great goddess mAlinI (it is also a play on the name of abhinava's biological mother vimalA). Hence, we see this combination as an early attestation of that goddess.
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