uchchatana
उच्चाटन uccāṭanaEradication or uprooting; one of the six acts of tantric magic, the driving of a person away from their place. Counted among the destructive 'black' acts the texts restrict.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
Uchchatana is eradication, the uprooting and driving away of a person from their place, unsettling them until they flee.
- The six acts Treatise
…enmity, creates dissension between two people attached to each other. Uccāṭana , eradication, deprives a person of his place.
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
…he 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 the coercive members, f…