The concepts of Kadividya and Hadividya

These two terms [=kadividya and hadividya] are indicated by the 32 nd and 33 rd stanzas in Saundaryalahari The fifteen letters of Pancadasaksari are indicative of the fifteen attendants of the Goddess, viz. Madantika, Manini, Mangala, Subhaga, Sundari, Siddhimatta, Lajja, Mati, Tusti, Ista, Pusta, Laksmi, Uma, Lalita and Lalapanti. He who knows the Goddess encircled by these, is sure to get release. When srim is prefixed to Pancadasaksari, it becomes Sodasaksari or Kadividya. Of the fifteen letters, Siva, i.e. Ka is Gaganabija, Sakti, i.e., E is Bhrgubija, Kama, i.e., I is

370 Manmathabija; Ksiti i. e. La is Aindrabija; Ravi i.e. Ha is Gaganabija; Sitakirana i.e., Sa is Bhrgubija; Smara i.e., Ka is Pancabanabija; Hamsa i.e. Ha is Sivablja; Sakra i. e. La is Ksitibija; Para i.e., Sa is Pranabija; Mara i.e., Ka is Kamabija; Hari i. e., La Ksitibija and Hrllekhas are Mayabijas. The sixteenth letter Srim is Ramabija called Citkala. The chant should be uttered fully cognising the Avasthas, Sunyas, Visuvas and Cakras which are five, six, seven and nine in number as it is explained by Bhaskar araya in Varivasyarahasya. The three kutas in Sodasaksari viz. Vagbhava, Kamaraja and Sakti kutas have four divisions representing their aspects of Srsti, Sthiti, Samhara and Anakhya. They are again classified into seven viz. Puta - Jnati, Jnana, Jneya, Samarasya; (2) Dhama i. Cakra (Agni, Surya, Soma, Brahma) ii. Natha (Mitresa, Sasthisa, Uddi sa, Ascaryananda) iii. Dasa (Jagrat, Svapna, Susupti, Turiya) iv. Sakti (Vama, Jyestha, Raudri, Santa or Kamesvari, Vajresvari, Bhagamalini, Mahatripurasundari) v. Atma (Anatma, Atma, Paramatma, Jnanatma); (3) Tattva Atmat attva, Sivatattva, Vidyatattva, 164 Sarvatattva (4) Pitha Kamarupa, Purnagiri, Jalandhara, Uddy ana (5) Anvaya Prak, Daksina, Uttara, Pascima; (6) Lingaka Svayambhu, Bana, Itara, Para; and (7) Matrka Para, Pasyanti, Madhyama and Vaikhari. Hadividya The chant indicated by the 33 rd verse of Saundaryalahari connoting the Hadi vidya is found in the 8 th stanza of Tripuropani sad. 165 The 164. Varivasya-rahasya 33, p.23.

371 Goddess is called Nitya. The devotee has to worship the Goddess with rosaries strung with Cintamani beads and offer oblations in Sivagni with Surabhi's ghee. Kundalini. Sivagni is meant for the fire of The devotee has to recite, reject everything as unreal to recite, in the fire of true knowledge. The chant mentioned here has another name called Lopamudravidya. Some interpret Sivagni as existing in the triangle of Siva. In the Bindusthana, one has to collect Svadhisthanagni defend other forces with Pasa and Ankusa -> and offer the ghee of letters. Some consider this chant as Kadividya while others consider this as Hadividya, removing Hakara, Sakara and Kakara of the second kuta and placing Ka, E and I in their place. The devotee will attain supreme bliss by this chant, if he meditates on the Goddess in the plexuses in the following way. In Ajnacakra, He is Parasambhu and She is Citparamba dwelling on the left thigh of Parasambhu. By worshipping this form, the devotee reaches the immortal land of moonlight. 166 In Visuddhicakra, Siva and Sakti exist as Vyome svara and Vyomesvari who dispel the darkness of nescience in man. 167 165. "Kamo yonih kamakala vajrapanirguha hasa matarisva bhramindrah punarguha sakala may aya ca purusyesa visvamata (dividya" Tripuropanishad8. 166. Saundaryalahari 36. 167. Saundaryalahari 37. sa (Siya)

- 372 The Anahatacakra pictures them as Hamsesvara and Hamsesvari who bless the votary with knowledge in the eighteen vidyas like the four six Vedangas, four Vedas, Purva and Uttara mimamsas, Nyaya, Puranas, Dharmasastra, Ayurveda, Gandharvavidya and Niti sastra. 168 In Svadhisthana, they are meditated as Samvartesvara and Samayamba. By this meditation the votary can defend himself from 169 prickly heat on earth and act as cool balm to heat. Manipura Her lustre dispells the prevailing darkness. In the She is called Saudamini, and He is called Meghesvara. The devotee is by initiated Her into true knowledge, ^ act as shower of cool bath. and Amrtesvara. 170 To the entire universe, they They are otherwise called Amrtesvari In Muladhara, Siva and Sakti are in dancing posture, acting as the father and mother of the Universe, in Hibiscus red complexion. 171 They are called Natesvara and Samayamba or Mahanatesvara and Lasyesvari or Mahabhairava and Anandabhairavi.