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saubhagya

सौभाग्य saubhāgya

Auspiciousness, good fortune and flourishing; the boon classically associated with Srividya, the worship of the goddess as shakti, and the name of one of its streams.

Where this term appears

  • Four in the Morning Treatise

    It was finally commented on by Bhaskararaya in 1728, in the Saubhagya Bhaskara , whose twelve sections are named for the twelve digits of the sun her commentator’s name carried.

  • Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise

    The Saubhagya, Hadi, Samaya, Kaula, and Vama traditions all hold the cosmological position the verse states.

  • Nyasa As Architecture Treatise

    The Saubhagya-Kadi lineage’s standard sequence draws operationally from the Nityotsava ’s detailed walks, supplemented by Bhaskararaya’s Varivasya Rahasya .

  • Purascharana Treatise

    The seasons that hold the practice The Saubhagya-Kadi tradition emphasises the four Navaratri periods - the nine-night periods occurring at the seasonal junctures (spring Vasanta Navaratri , summer Ashada Navar…

  • The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise

    …timate, with external practice as the entry to internal practice. The Saubhagya-Kadi lineage’s intermediate position.

  • The Caste And Gender Question Treatise

    The Saubhagya-Kadi tradition Bhaskararaya established has been Brahmanical in its institutional embodiment — Bhaskararaya himself was a Brahmin householder, his disciple Umanandanatha was a Brahmin, the parampa…

  • The Chariot Treatise

    …en in the basic construction of the figure. The Nine Enclosures - The Saubhagya-Kadi Walk.

  • The Closing Treatise

    …medieval Kashmir foundation, the Kerala Hadi-Lopamudra tradition, the Saubhagya-Kadi line under Bhaskararaya, the Samaya matha tradition, the Tamil Siddha integration, the Bengali Shakta tradition, and the shap…

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