9/18/2023 0 Comments Prapanchasara tantra![]() ![]() However, the PKS belongs to the śrīvidyā, the cult of the beautiful goddess Lalitā Tripurasundarī worshiped in her śrīcakra diagram, which is generally not identified with left-hand Kaula Tantra. While the former ritual elements are pretty universal in all forms of Tantra, the pañcamakāra have been specific to Kaula Tantra, the tradition which made use of natural symbols, such as song and dance, wine, meat, sexual fluids and intercourse preferably with women of untouchable castes, to bring about ecstatic god-consciousness and deified existence, and to share in the powers of their godhead śiva-śakti. ![]() The ritual tradition which I am going to discuss – namely the Paraśurāma Kalpasūtra (PKS), a ritual handbook which was probably composed in the 16th century or somewhat earlier in South India, and subsequent elaborations up to the late 19th century – contains everything that contemporary educated Indian and Western readers will expect of Tantra: mantras, yantras, hand gestures (mudrās), yogic body-centers, Kuṇḍalinī Yoga, ritualized alphabet, non-dual śaiva-śākta philosophy, and of course the pañcamakāra, the famous “five Ms”. ![]()
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