Kalikula
कालीकुल kalikulaThe 'family of Kali', the stream of Shakta Tantra that treats Kali as the supreme Goddess and root of the Mahavidyas. Paired with the Srikula.
Where this term appears
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
The other is the Kalikula, the family of Kali, fierce and cremation-scented, centred on the dark goddesses of time and dissolution.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
And there is the Kalikula , the family of Kali, strongest in Bengal, Assam and Kashmir, which faces the fiercer forms of the Goddess directly, the dark mother who stands on time itself.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
The Kalikula , the family of Kali, is fierce, working with the dark and terrible faces of the Goddess.
- Chhinnamasta: The Goddess Who Cut Off Her Own Head Treatise
She is honoured at scattered shrines, notably the temple at Rajrappa in Jharkhand, where the Bhairavi and Damodar rivers meet, and within the guarded lineages of the Kalikula and Srikula.
- Kali: The Black Mother of Time Treatise
Her worship spans the simplest household bhakti and the most demanding Kalikula Tantra, the latter initiatory and guarded.
- Ten Faces of the One Treatise
The Kalikula , the family of Kali, treats all ten as forms of Mahakali, with Kali as the root from whom the rest pour.
- The Garland: Why the Ten Are One Treatise
The Kalikula, the family of Kali, says the white light is Kali and the others are her colours.
- Tripura Sundari: The Beauty of the Three Cities Treatise
She is Tripura Sundari , the Beautiful One of the Three Cities, and where the Kalikula makes Kali the root of the ten, the Srikula, the family of Sri, makes her the supreme, the head of all the rest.