maithuna
मैथुन maithunaRitual union; the fifth of the five m's (panchamakara). In left-hand Kaula practice it is enacted; in Samaya practice it is internalised as the union of Shiva and Shakti within.
Where this term appears
- Konark: The Sun Temple Temples
Among them are the maithuna reliefs (carvings of embracing couples), in the same tradition that made Khajuraho notorious.
- 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
…madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (parched grain), and maithuna (sexual union).
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
…substances: madya wine, mamsa meat, matsya fish, mudra parched grain, maithuna ritual sexual union), cremation-ground rituals, the worship of the goddess in her fierce dissolution-aspect ( laya pradhana ) rathe…
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
…itual 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 Samaya position holds.
- The Panchamakara Question Treatise
Parched grain (not, in this specific context, ritual hand gestures, despite the common modern conflation). Maithuna .