gurumandala

The lineage records — the family’s own internal gurumandala recitations, sometimes also the family’s written granthavari (manuscript-book) traditions — track the transmission across as many generations as the h…

…mid-19th century, the practitioner will, going back through their own gurumandala recitation — the daily salutation to the lineage of teachers that opens every worship — name eight, ten, sometimes fourteen succ…

…adition, with its own textual heritage in the Tamil language, its own gurumandala running back to figures like Tirumular in the early centuries CE, and its own operational vocabulary that runs parallel to the S…

When a contemporary Sri Vidya guru gives Panchadashi diksha, the lineage is almost always traceable, through the recitation of the gurumandala , back to Bhaskararaya.

…mn, names the 27 as: the contents of the four lower amnayas; plus the gurumandala (the lineage hierarchy of Divyaugha , Siddhaugha , and Manavaugha gurus); plus the pithatrayam (the worship of the three princip…

…lar — whose figure stands at the head of the Tamil Siddha tradition’s gurumandala — cannot be securely dated to within five hundred years either way of any specific century.