shatka
ṣaṭkaA hexad, a division of six. Used of the four great sections into which the Jayadrathayāmala is divided, each numbering some six thousand verses; the first ṣaṭka, the Śiraścheda, carries that tantra's classification of the scriptural seats.
Where this term appears
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
The Bhairava Tantras are usually described as divided into two seats or pithas: the Mantrapitha of the male mantra-deities and the Vidyapitha of the goddesses. The…