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kuta

कूट kūṭa

A 'peak' or segment; one of the three parts (vagbhava, kamaraja, shakti) into which the panchadashi mantra is divided.

Where this term appears

  • Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials

    …रमे व्योमन्सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा न वेद ॥ ko addhā veda ka iha pra vocat, kuta ājātā kuta iyaṃ visṛṣṭiḥ arvāg devā asya visarjanenāthā ko veda yata ābabhūva "Who really knows, and who can here declare it, whence it…

  • Nyasa As Architecture Treatise

    …he principal Kara Nyasa for the Sri Vidya practitioner uses the three kutas of the Panchadashi mantra Chapter 2 named, with each kuta installed at specific finger-locations in the lineage-specific operational p…

  • The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise

    … vishuddha chakra in the practitioner’s own subtle body, the Vagbhava kuta of the Panchadashi mantra.

  • The Door Treatise

    The practitioner enters the goddess’s name-energy at the level of the first kuta .

  • The Mantra, At Architecture Treatise

    Fifteen syllables, partitioned into three sections the Sanskrit tradition calls kutas - peaks .

  • The Manuals Treatise

    …eased-guru paduka); the architecture of the central mantra (the three kutas of the Panchadashi, the three lineage variants Kadi-Hadi-Sadi attributed to Manmatha-Lopamudra-Durvasa, the Shodashi extension, the Ma…

  • The Name Treatise

    The opening section, the Vagbhava kuta , runs from name 1 ( Srimata ) through name 50 or so, walking the upper half of the Goddess’s body and her emergence from the fire.

  • The Three Cities Treatise

    The Goddess’s own mantra - the Panchadashi , the fifteen-syllable mantra at the centre of Sri Vidya practice - is itself constructed in three sections. The three sections are called the three kutas - peaks.

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