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navavarana

नवावरण navāvaraṇa

The nine enclosures (avaranas) of the Sri Yantra, worshipped in sequence inward to the central point; the navavarana puja is the core Srividya rite.

Where this term appears

  • Purascharana Treatise

    …worship of another deity, not in extended formal practice, not in the navavarana puja the lineage performs daily.

  • The Chariot Treatise

    The walk through nine enclosures The Sri Yantra is read, in the developed Saubhagya-Kadi tradition’s practice, as having nine concentric enclosures - navavarana .

  • The Closing Treatise

    …la, the broader annual ritual framework), the worship procedures (the navavarana puja, the broader operational discipline).

  • The Continuity Question Treatise

    … late-18th-century Tiruvidaimaruthur, performing the daily Sri Chakra navavarana puja at his domestic shrine, reciting the Lalita Sahasranama , having received Saubhagya-Kadi diksha through the Bhaskararaya par…

  • The Court Treatise

    The Navakkari court has structural correspondences with the Sanskrit Navavarana court - both have nine positions, both place the principal goddess at the centre with attendants at outer positions - but the spec…

  • The Dispute Frame Treatise

    …r the genuine Sri Vidya worship is the external Sri Chakra puja — the navavarana sequence performed daily before the metal or stone yantra, with the prescribed mantras, the prescribed offerings, the prescribed …

  • The Fire She Came From Treatise

    The navavarana puja - the nine-enclosure worship - is the practitioner’s traversal of that army in reverse order.

  • The Householder Versus Renunciate Question Treatise

    …handramoulesvara puja of the Shankaracharya tradition, the Sri Chakra navavarana puja performed within the matha precincts.

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