Khaganana, Khagānanā, Khaga-anana: 7 definitions

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In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdomlib Libary: Vajrayogini

Khagānanā (खगानना) is the goddess presiding over one of the six petals of the western lotus of the vārāhyabhyudaya-maṇḍala, according to the Vārāhyabhyudayatantra (largerly extracted from the 10th century Abhidhānottaratantra). These six petals are presided over by a kuleśvarī (presiding lady) named Tārā. The central deity of the vārāhyabhyudaya-maṇḍala is the twelve-armed Vajravarāhī.

Khagānanā is associated with the sacred site (pīṭha) named Himālaya. All the goddess of the western lotus petals are to be visualised as dancing naked and being half-male / half-female (ardhanarīśvarī) with their two sides being red and yellow. In their four arms they brandish a bowl and staff, with a ḍamaru and their familial attribute.

Source: academia.edu: A Critical Study of the Vajraḍākamahātantrarāja (II)

Khagānanā (खगानना) is the name of a Ḍākinī (‘sacred girl’) presiding over Himālaya: one of the four Upacchandoha (‘sacred spot’) present within the Vākcakra (‘circle of word’), according to the 9th-centruy Vajraḍākatantra. The Vākcakra is one of three Cakras within the Tricakra system which embodies twenty-four sacred spots or districts resided over by twenty-four Ḍākinīs (viz., Khagānanā) whose husbands abide in one’s body in the form of twenty-four ingredients (dhātu) of one’s body.

Khagānanā has for her husband the hero (vīra) named Virūpākṣa. She is the presiding deity of Himālaya and the associated internal location is the ‘penis’ and the bodily ingredients (dhātu) are the ‘middle of the hair parting’.

Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka Maṇḍala

Khagānanā (खगानना) is the name of a Ḍākinī who, together with the Vīra (hero) named Virūpākṣa forms one of the 36 pairs situated in the Vajracakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the vajracakra refers to one of the four divisions of the sahaja-puṭa (‘innate layer’), situated within the padma (lotus) in the middle of the Herukamaṇḍala. The 36 pairs of Ḍākinīs [viz., Khagānanā] and Vīras each have one face and four arms; they hold a skull bowl, a skull staff, a small drum and a knife; they are dark-bluish-black in color.

Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara Samadhi

Khagānanā (खगानना) is the name of a Ḍākinī (female consort) and one of the deities of the Cakrasaṃvara-maṇḍala or Saṃvaramaṇḍala of Abhayākaragupta’s Niṣpannayogāvalī, p. 45 and n. 145; (Cf. Cakrasaṃvaratantra, Gray, David B., 2007).—The Cakrasaṃvara mandala has a total of sixty-two deities. [...] Three concentric circles going outward, the body, speech and mind wheels (kāya-vāka-citta), in the order: mind (blue), speech (red), and body (white), with eight Ḍākinīs each in non-dual union with their Ḍākas, "male consorts".

Associated elements of Khagānanā and Virupākṣa:

Circle: vākacakra [=vākcakra?] (speech-wheel) (red);
Ḍākinī (female consort): Khagānanā;
Ḍāka (male consort): Virupākṣa;
Bīja: hiṃ;
Body-part: scrot./lab. [scrotum/labia?];
Pīṭha: Himālaya;
Bodily constituent: sīmanta (hair line);
Bodhipakṣa (wings of enlightenment): vīryabodhyaṅga (awakening of effort).

Source: academia.edu: Elements of Newar Buddhist Art (EB)

Khagānanā (खगानना) is the name of a Goddess associated with Dharmodaya (“inverted triangle symbolizing the female principle”).—There is an explanation for why this goddess of the dharmodayā/dharmdhātu  is known as Khagānanā, “Bird-faced”. The Candamaharosana-Tantra (verse 15.16)  and its commentary by Kumaracandra inform us that in esoteric Buddhist literature the word khagamukha—“the face or the bill of a bird” means female genitalia. Since the term khagamukha is synonymous with khagānana in Sanskrit, it become abundantly clear that the mother goddess was known as “Bird-faced” because of her association with yoni.

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India history and geography

Source: academia.edu: Elements of Newar Buddhist Art

Khaganana is the name of a Goddess identified with Guhyeshvari and associated with underwater spring known as the Hmasinga Shrine (known to the Nepalis as Phulbari near Balaju—i.e., Pulan Guhyesvari at Phulbari).—A nineteenth century colophon of a Newari manuscript in the collection of Babukaji Vajracharya at Ombahal Kathmandu identifies this hole with the Buddhist goddess Khaganana “Bird Faced,” who is also known as Guhyesvari.  The Newar Buddhist scholars are of the opinion that the minor deity with the same name, Khaganana, mentioned in the Sadhanamala no. 218, and Samvarodaya-Tantra 7. 19 are identical with this Buddhist goddess. This view may be correct because in Umapati’s Vajravarahi-sadhana Khaganana is described as the goddess of the Himalaya. However, due to her association with the waterhole and Svayambhu she is not a minor deity in Nepal.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Khaganana in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Khagānanā (खगानना).—name of a yoginī: Sādhanamālā 427.6.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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