akarshana
आकर्षण ākarṣaṇaAttraction; the drawing of a person or power toward oneself. In some lists it replaces vidveshana among the six acts of tantric magic, keeping the number fixed while the membership shifts.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
Some lists drop vidveshana and put in akarshana , attraction, the summoning of a person or a power toward oneself.
- The six acts Treatise
The *ṣaṭkarma*, the six acts, is the grid the Sanskrit mantric compendia use to sort magical ritual, and it does not organise the Śābara corpus. In the few pages…