kuta
कूट kūṭaA '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.