paddhati
पद्धति paddhatiA ritual manual that sets out how a rite is actually to be performed, compiled from scripture rather than revealed in its own right. Bhoja's Siddhantasarapaddhati and the Somashambhupaddhati are the standard Shaiva examples.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The solar Chanda travelled into the royal Śaiva paddhati along with the rite.
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
The 28 Śaiva Āgamas are the revealed scriptural canon of the Śaiva Siddhānta, the dualist, ritual-centred mainstream of tantric Śaivism. They are counted as ten…
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
A distinctively Nāth philosophy, set out in texts like the Siddha Siddhānta Paddhati , is a still later, roughly eighteenth-century, formation.