Krama

…e monistic, more Śākta, more transgressive, home to the Trika and the Krama and the goddess-centred cults that fed Kashmir Śaivism and the Śākta Tantras.

Alexis Sanderson, working from the manuscripts, distinguishes several distinct Shakta Tantric systems, among them the Trika, the Kalikula-Krama, the cult of Kubjika, and the Traipura-Srividya.

There was the Krama , the sequence, a fierce Kali-centred cult of the phases of consciousness.

In the krama-patha , the "step" recitation, the words are chanted in overlapping pairs: first word with second, then second with third, then third with fourth, and so on down the line, each word appearing twice…

…ned the text word by word ( pada-patha ), then in overlapping pairs ( krama-patha ), and then in a series of increasingly elaborate "woven" forms — the most complex, ghana-patha , braiding each run of words for…

sankata te hanumana chhudavai, mana krama bachana dhyana jo lavai — Hanuman frees from every distress those who hold him in mind, in word and in deed.

…n acknowledgements name Navjivan Rastogi of Lucknow University, whose Krama Tantricism of Kashmir of 1979 he cites as an authority, and Vrajavallabha Dvivedi of Sampurnananda Sanskrit University; he closes the …

The recitational tradition developed a whole taxonomy of preservation schemes, each with its own name: pada , krama , jaṭā , ghana .