stambhana
स्तम्भन stambhanaThe power of stilling, stunning or paralysing; one of the six acts of tantric magic, the special domain of the Mahavidya Bagalamukhi. Inwardly, the arresting of restless speech and mind.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
Stambhana is immobilization, the arresting or paralysing of an enemy, a faculty, a process, holding something fast so that it cannot move or act.
- The six acts Treatise
…raṇa , subjugation, brings a person under the practitioner's control; stambhana , immobilization, stops a person's activity; vidveṣa , enmity, creates dissension between two people attached to each other.
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
… acts", reports that the classical six-act grid, śānti , vaśīkaraṇa , stambhana , vidveṣa , uccāṭana , māraṇa , does not organise this corpus at all, and that the tradition carries its own ethical critique of t…
- Bagalamukhi: The Stiller of Tongues Treatise
She is the goddess of stambhana , the power that stops things, and the first thing she stops, in her own picture, is speech.