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hAdi mata

By admin on Dec 28, 2008 | In Srividya


The concept and structure of AmnAyas varies differently in the case of kAdi and hAdi
mata-s. In the ShaDAmnAya scheme of hAdimata, UrdhvAmnAya forms the highest
AmnAya and pAtAlAmnAya forms the lowest. kAdimata does not consider
pAtAlAmnAya outside the purview of shrIkula Krama tantra but includes
anuttarAmnAya instead. The devatA presiding over UrdhvAmnAya is sundarI in the
case of hAdimata, which is why it is called sundarI Krama. mahAkAmakalA kAlI
presides over the UrdhvAmnAya in the case of kAdimata and hence the name kAlI
Krama:
UrdhvAmnAye mahAShoDhA uttare tAriNI smR^itA |
ayaM hAdimate proktaH shR^iNu kAdimate.adhunA ||
mahAkAmakalA kAlI tUrdhvAmAye.atra devatA |
dashakAlyAdi bhedaishcha kaniShThaH parirkIrtitaH ||
The hAdi Krama lists the AmnAyas based primarily on darshanas:
shAktaM shaivaM vaiShNavaM cha sauraM gANapameva cha |
bauddhaM cha devadeveshi ShaDAmnAyAH prakIrtitAH ||
The six Amnayas corresponding to the six darshanas, discussed in
hAdimata tantra and quoted in shaktisa~Ngama are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

shAkta
shaiva
vaiShNava
saura
gANapatya
bauddha

Some Tantras, mostly dealing with hAdi vidyA, offer a mapping of these darshanas
with the classic pUrvAdi AmnAyas:
shAktaM shaivaM vaiShNavaM cha gANapaM saurameva cha |
UrdhvaM pUrvaM dakShayoge pratyak chodak cha pArvati ||
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

UrdhvAmnAya: shAkta
pUrvAmnAya: shaiva
dakShiNAmnAya: vaiShNava
pashchimAmnAya: gANapatya
uttarAmnAya: saura
pAtAlAmnAya: bauddha

This scheme differs from kAdimata where:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

pUrvAmnAya: vaidika, agni, gaNapati


dakshiNAmnAya: shaiva
pashchimAmnAya: vaiShNava
uttarAmnaya: shAkta
UrdhvAmnAya: shAmbhava
anuttarAmnAya: kevala-brahmAmnAya

hAdi mata also associates AchAras with AmnAya:


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

pAtAlAmnAya: gandharva, apsarA, indrajAla etc. and hence pashvAchAra


pUrvAmnAya: kaulAchara
dakShiNAmnAya: dakshiNAchAra
pashchimAmnAya: vIrAchAra
uttarAmnAya: vAmAchAra
UrdhvAmnAya: divyamArga or brahmamArga

The usage of AmnAya is also tied to geography by some tantras, which


divide the Indian sub-continent into five prasthas:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

indraprastha
yamaprastha
varuNaprastha
kUrmaprastha and
devaprastha

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