chummaka
छुम्मक chummakaA coded substitute word by which initiates referred to ritual things in company. The fifteenth chapter of the Svacchanda Tantra is a register of them, and Kshemaraja's colophon names the chapter the Elucidation of the Chummakas. Not to be confused with cumbaka, a grade of initiate.
Where this term appears
- The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
Its fifteenth chapter is a register of chummaka , code-words by which initiates were to refer to ritual things in company, and at 15.3 it prescribes that wine is to be known as harṣaṇa , the gladdener, and surā…