shodashi
षोडशी ṣoḍaśīThe sixteen-syllable mantra of Srividya, the panchadashi extended by a secret final syllable; also a name of the goddess.
Where this term appears
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
A practitioner who has received the Shodashi may use eight or nine.
- Purascharana Treatise
The Panchadashi purascharana requires Panchadashi initiation. The Shodashi purascharana requires Shodashi initiation.
- The Bengal Renaissance And Ramakrishna Treatise
He performed the Shodashi Puja — the worship of Shodashi , the sixteen-syllable form of Tripura Sundari that Volume 3’s Chapter 2 walked as the highest mantra of the Sri Vidya tradition.
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
…framework — the ten great manifestations of the goddess ( Kali, Tara, Shodashi/Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi, Kamala ) that the Bengali tradition would a…
- The Caste And Gender Question Treatise
This included, in the accounts that survive, the Panchamakara engagement that Chapter 3 walked. It included the Maha Shodashi mantra initiation.
- The Closing Treatise
…tional architecture — the diksha framework, the mantras (Panchadashi, Shodashi, the broader mantric vocabulary), the manuals (Nityotsava, Parashurama Kalpasutra, the broader operational textual heritage), the s…
- The Continuity Question Treatise
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.
- The Door Treatise
The years after are the practice. Fifth, the Shodashi-diksha and Purnabhisheka .