Trikona
त्रिकोण trikoṇaThe triangle of tantric geometry; the downward triangle signifies Shakti and the source-womb of manifestation, and interlocked with its upward opposite it figures the union of Shiva and Shakti.
Where this term appears
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Bhaskararaya reads the opening "one" as the madhya trikona , the central triangle, which becomes nine with the eight of the vasukona , the eight-cornered figure, and then nineteen, twenty-nine and forty-three b…
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Kentron becomes kendra , the angular houses. Trigonon becomes trikona , the trines.
- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
Tribinduka , "having three dots," is I. Trikoṇa , "triangle," is E.
- The Three Cities Treatise
The central triangle, the trikona , holds at its three vertices the three principal shaktis - iccha , jnana , kriya - with Lalita at the bindu inside the triangle as the source of all three.
- The diagram and the coiled power Treatise
The diagram of the remnant-lord is read in that shared grammar, one arrangement of a universal alphabet of point, triangle, petal and gate. Around it stands the triangle, the trikona .