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The Essence of the Manifested World Tantra (1935) - Page 4 - Source Library

The Essence of the Manifested World Tantra

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Subject	Page
Placement of zodiacal lords	58
Placement of zodiacal afflictions	60
Placement of lunar mansion afflictions	61
Sequence of lunar mansion affliction placement	62
Description of the lunar mansion cycle	63
Placement of lunar mansion deities	”
Placement of dates (Tithi)	64
Placement of divisions (Karaṇa); Pervasiveness of Hṛllekhā a specific sacred syllable	65
Knowledge of Hṛllekhā and identification with Vishnu	66
* Compatibility of zodiac and lunar mansion names	”
* Division of Kula family and Akula non-family purification	67
* Sequence of mantra purification	”

Fifth Chapter

Subject	Page
Chapter on initiation
Etymology of initiation and mantra	68
Rules for the preceptor	”
Measurement of the Vāstu architectural site mandala	69
Sequence of worship of site deities	”
Offering to the site; Initiation pavilion	70
Statement of measurements for square pits, zones, and wombs	72

Sixth Chapter

Subject	Page
Explanation of seers, meters, and deities	79
Meaning of heart and other words in six-part placement	80
Exclusion of eyes in the five-part placement option	81
Rules for setting up equipment	82
Rules for deity worship	”
Procedure for installing the water pot	83

Subject	Page
Three types of the eight fragrances	83
Application of the twenty-eight aspects	”
Filling the pot with five Rig-Vedic verses	84
Life-infusion mantra; Types of devotional offerings	85
* Offering mantras	87
Application for enchanting the three worlds	88
Meditation on the six-part deities	90
Letters of world guardians and weapons	”
Chapter on fire sacrifice (Homa)	91
Fire-lighting mantra	”
Differences in fire tongues: virtuous and others	92
Their names	”
Fire's limbs, form, etc.	93
Fire mantra; Meditation on fire	”
Sacrifice with preceding utterances (Vyāhṛti)	94
Sacrifice with Om in conception and other rites	”
* Rules for quantities of sacrificial materials	95
Mantra for offering to Brahman	96
Offering to lunar mansions and others	97
Eight-part and five-part prostration	”
Consecration (Abhiṣeka)	98

Seventh Chapter

Subject	Page
Chapter on Mātṛkā the mothers/alphabet goddesses
Rule for Matrika	101
Meaning of Matrika mantra	”
Meditation on speech goddess (Bhāratī)	102
Preparatory rites; Yantra geometric diagram	”
Names of the nine powers	103

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