The path of the worlds: one of the six 'paths' along which the Shaiva scriptures map the emanated cosmos. The tenth chapter of the Svacchanda Tantra is one of the longest treatments of it in any surviving Shaiva scripture, and the officiant must know the worlds in order to purify the candidate of them at initiation.

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• The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages →

  That chapter is the bhuvanādhvan , the path of the worlds: the Shaiva cosmology, absorbing and extending the whole Puranic map.

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