panchamakara
पञ्चमकार pañcamakāraThe 'five m's' of Kaula tantric ritual: madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (parched grain), and maithuna (union). In left-hand practice they are used literally; in right-hand and Samaya practice they are taken symbolically or internally.
Where this term appears
- What is Tantra? Lineages
The point of friction is a set of practices called the panchamakara , the "five Ms," because each begins with the sound ma in Sanskrit: madya (wine), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (parched grain), and mait…
- 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 Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra ('the ocean of the Kula') is one of the most important and most quoted scriptures of the Kaula school of Tantra, a comprehensive manual of the…
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
What the pañcamakāra , the five substances whose names begin with the letter M, actually prescribes is at The panchamakara question.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
A mudra is a "seal," and the word covers four different things that most people never connect: the hand-poses of temple images (like the raised palm of…
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
…ate ritually uses five substances that ordinary religion forbids: the panchamakara , the five Ms, being wine, meat, fish, parched grain and sexual union.
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
…dures the orthodox brahmanical tradition treats as unacceptable - the panchamakara (the five M-substances: madya wine, mamsa meat, matsya fish, mudra parched grain, maithuna ritual sexual union), cremation-grou…
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
The Bengali Shakta tradition integrated Sri Vidya into the broader Dasa Mahavidya framework, where Tripura Sundari is the third of ten great goddesses, systematised…