panchadashi

… the family kavu , by every Smarta father initiating his son into the Panchadashi mantra at the age of twenty-five in the small back room of a house in Andhra or Karnataka or Tamil Nadu.

A practitioner who has been initiated at the Panchadashi level may use four or five of the fourteen routinely.

A Sri Vidya practitioner has received the Panchadashi-diksha .

…hakra in the practitioner’s own subtle body, the Vagbhava kuta of the Panchadashi mantra.

…ked the operational architecture — the diksha framework, the mantras (Panchadashi, Shodashi, the broader mantric vocabulary), the manuals (Nityotsava, Parashurama Kalpasutra, the broader operational textual her…

The Panchadashi — the fifteen-syllable mantra — is the central mantra of the Sri Vidya tradition, with the Shodashi sixteen-syllable extension as the higher mantric form.

In the developed tradition, Bala is the initiation deity - the goddess into whose mantra a Sri Vidya practitioner is first initiated, before being initiated into the full Panchadashi .

The fifteen-syllable mantra called Panchadashi , which is the core mantra of Sri Vidya, originates here.