grhastha
गृहस्थ gṛhasthaThe householder; one in the stage of married family life that follows brahmacharya in the classical scheme of ashramas, and the setting in which much of Srividya is in fact transmitted and practised.
Where this term appears
- The Dispute Frame Treatise
Should Sri Vidya be practiced principally by householders (the grhastha model — Bhaskararaya, the Kerala Namboothiri family-traditions, the Bengali Shakta household tradition) or by renunciates (the sannyasa mo…
- The Householder Versus Renunciate Question Treatise
…ana in its householder form, the agnihotra fire-tending, the seasonal grhastha yajnas) — he performs the sannyasi-tradition rituals, the Chandramoulesvara puja of the Shankaracharya tradition, the Sri Chakra na…