pancha-makara
पञ्चमकार pañcamakāraThe 'five Ms' of left-hand Tantra - madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (parched grain) and maithuna (union). Taken literally by the vira (heroic) path and symbolically or substituted by others, they are ritual means of transcending duality, hedged by strict initiation and discipline.
Where this term appears
- 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.
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The five m's, honestly No account of the Śākta Tantras can avoid the pañcamakāra , the "five m's," because no subject in Tantra has been more distorted.
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
…e path that includes ritual transgression of Brahmin caste norms (the pancha-makara practices Volume 3 named in Chapter 6’s context) — and was, by the tradition’s own account, a Siddha (perfected being) whose w…