Krama
क्रम krama'Sequence'; a fierce Kali-centred stream of Kashmir's non-dual Shaivism, also called the Kalikrama or Mahanaya, which worships the phases through which consciousness moves in every act of perception. One of the traditions Abhinavagupta absorbed into his synthesis. Not to be confused with the Vedic krama-patha, a mode of recitation that shares only the ordinary word for sequence.
Explained in depth in The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequenceWhere this term appears
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
…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.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
… Kāmeśvarī; and the northern around Kālī Kālasaṅkarṣaṇī, which is the Krama.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
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.
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Now notice what those two drawing orders are. Outside-in is samhara krama , dissolution.
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
There was the Krama , the sequence, a fierce Kali-centred cult of the phases of consciousness.
- How the Vedas Were Preserved History
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…
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
…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 forw…
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
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.