mantroddhara
मन्त्रोद्धार mantroddharaThe coded 'extraction' of a mantra from the Tantric texts, deliberately scrambled so it cannot be read off the page by the uninitiated.
Explained in depth in Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lockWhere this term appears
- What is a Mantra? Worship
A mantra is a sacred sound, syllable, word, or verse, held in the mind or on the tongue and used in worship and meditation. The word comes from the Sanskrit root…
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
Abhinavagupta (c. 950 to 1016 CE) was a Kashmiri philosopher, tantric master and aesthetician, the towering systematiser of the non-dual Shaiva traditions of…
- The Guru and the Living Mantra Treatise
It encodes it, in a procedure called mantroddhara , the "extraction" or "drawing out" of the mantra.
- Kubjika and the Paschimamnaya: four origins Lineages
The Paschimamnaya, the Western Transmission, is one of the four streams into which Kaula tantra divided, and its goddess is Kubjika, the bent or hunchbacked one.…
- Samaya: the fetter and who was spared it Lineages
Samaya, in Shaiva tantra, is the set of binding rules an initiate accepts at initiation; a samayin is the initiate who carries them, and prayashchitta is the…
- The Kashmir Foundation Treatise
Jayaratha also wrote on that text, interpreting its mantroddhara in favour of the Kadi lineage.
- The Manuals Treatise
…a wrote a commentary on the Nityashodashikarnava that interpreted the mantroddhara - the formal derivation of the Panchadashi from its component elemental syllables - in favour of the Kadi lineage.