I just did a bit of Googling, and on the Wikipedia entry for Zēng Zhǎng Tiānwáng the Heavenly King of the South (or Virūḍhaka in Sanskrit, or Tăng Trưởng Thiên Vương in Vietnamese) it’s written that “His symbolic weapon is the sword which he carries in his right hand to protect the Dharma and the southern continent.…