Pancharatra
पाञ्चरात्र pāñcarātraThe Vaishnava Agama, the tantric scriptural tradition whose texts are called Samhitas and which governs much of Vishnu temple worship.
Where this term appears
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
That cuts directly against Yāmuna's defence of the Pāñcarātra, which rested precisely on divine authorship .
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It listed a hundred and sixteen Pancharatra samhitas , the scriptures of the Vaishnava tantric tradition.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
The rites that bathe and clothe and feed Ranganatha, the reclining Vishnu, come in large part from the Pāñcarātra, the Vaiṣṇava branch of the tantric revelation.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
Major Śaiva scriptures carry "Tantra" in their titles, the Svacchanda , the Netra , the Mālinīvijayottara , and Pāñcarātra texts are also called Āgamas.
- What are the Āgamas and Tantras? Lineages
Where Vishnu or Narayana reveals, it is called a Saṃhitā , "a collection," and the stream is Vaiṣṇava, its corpus known as the Pāñcarātra .
- What is Diksha? Lineages
The Vaishnava traditions, drawing on the Pancharatra Agamas, developed their own initiation, the pancha-samskara , the five sacraments: the marking of the body with Vishnu's emblems, the sectarian forehead mark…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…reditary priests, the adishaiva or gurukkal in Shaiva temples, and by Pancharatra or Vaikhanasa officiants in the temples of Vishnu.
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Marion Rastelli, working on the Pancharatra samhitas , the Vaishnava ritual texts, describes an initiation in which how far a person may enter the mandala depends on varna and on sex: a brahmin into the innermo…