paduka
पादुका pādukāThe 'sandals' of the guru; the venerated seat of the teacher and lineage, invoked in worship as the point of contact with the transmission.
Where this term appears
- Why Hindus touch elders' feet (charan sparsh) Journal
… tradition, the single holiest object a disciple knows, worshipped as paduka , the "sandals," in whose symbol the guru's grace is held.
- Purascharana Treatise
…anas) the lineage’s specific objects of worship - the Sri Yantra, the paduka of the gurus, the principal practice texts.
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
The padukas - sandals - at the feet of every Sri Vidya guru and at the foot of every Sri Yantra are visualized as the Goddess’s own feet, descended into the lineage.
- The Door Treatise
The disciple receives the foundational mantras - the Guru-paduka mantra, the Ganesha mantra, the Bhairava mantra, depending on lineage - and the basic instructions on how to live as someone preparing for the hi…
- The Mantra, At Architecture Treatise
…mantras given at the Upadeshi, Sambhavi, and Shakti levels - the Guru-paduka mantra, the Ganesha mantra, the Bhairava mantra, the Bala Tripurasundari mantra, the Raja Matangi mantras, the Varahi mantras, the Ba…
- The Manuals Treatise
…putes about text-transmission, distance-shaktipata, and deceased-guru paduka); the architecture of the central mantra (the three kutas of the Panchadashi, the three lineage variants Kadi-Hadi-Sadi attributed to…
- The Worship - At The Architecture Of Nine Doors Treatise
The Guru-Paduka Stotra opens the worship - the salutation to her own guru, to her guru’s guru, to the line of teachers back through the Kashmir Shaiva successor lineages, back through the Kerala commentaries th…
- The jewelled earring Treatise
… small marble shrine at the water's edge, are footprints, the Charana Paduka , the footprints of Vishnu pressed into the stone at the place of his world-making austerity.