[Advaita-l] Panchayatana worship

jaldhar at braincells.com jaldhar at braincells.com
Sat Mar 14 00:25:54 EDT 2020


On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:

> Thanks Sriram ji for the verse which is in this chapter
> https://sa.wikisource.org/s/hst   It is about Shakti panchayatana where the
> other four will be in the four corners.
>
> भवानीं तु यजेन्मध्ये तथैशान्यां तु माधवम् ।
> आग्नेय्यां गिरिजानाथं गणेशं रक्षसां दिशि ॥ ३७ ॥
> वायव्यामर्चयेत्सूर्यमिति देवस्थितिक्रमः ।
>
> The entire discourse is by Narayana.
>

Thank you.  I am aware of the different theoretical forms of the 
panchayatana.  (In fact some of the prayoga books cite this very shloka as 
a pramana.)  What I was wondering is if there are any examples in 
contemporary or historical _practice_.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>


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