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Trikona

त्रिकोण trikoṇa

The 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 Jyotisha? Scriptures

    Kentron becomes kendra , the angular houses. Trigonon becomes trikona , the trines.

  • 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 .

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