Tantra
Sharadatilaka
A Sanskrit compendium of mantra science ascribed to Lakshmanadeshika, carrying the earliest fixed enumeration of the six acts that anyone can point to.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Appears in
- The power in the phoneme Treatise
In the Tantric traditions a mantra is a constructed sonic object with named parts, transmitted through initiation from a living teacher and kept private afterwards.…
- The six acts Treatise
The *ṣaṭkarma*, the six acts, is the grid the Sanskrit mantric compendia use to sort magical ritual, and it does not organise the Śābara corpus. In the few pages…