madya
मद्य madyaWine; the first of the five m's (panchamakara) of Kaula ritual, understood literally in left-hand practice and symbolically in others.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
They are five substances whose Sanskrit names begin with the letter m : madya , wine; māṃsa , meat; matsya , fish; mudrā , parched grain; and maithuna , sexual union.
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
The Kularnava does discuss the pancha-makara , the "five Ms": madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (parched grain), and maithuna (sexual union), the ritual substances of the left-hand Kaula path.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…a , the "five Ms," because each begins with the sound ma in Sanskrit: madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (parched grain), and maithuna (sexual union).
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
…ion treats as unacceptable - the panchamakara (the five M-substances: madya wine, mamsa meat, matsya fish, mudra parched grain, maithuna ritual sexual union), cremation-ground rituals, the worship of the goddes…
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
…equires engagement with the ritual transgressions (the five makaras — madya, mamsa, matsya, mudra, maithuna : wine, meat, fish, parched grain, and sexual union) rather than the internalisation of them that the …
- The Panchamakara Question Treatise
Each begins with the same consonant. Madya .