Kubjika

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Kubjika (

Adishakti was in its peak in 12th century CE.[2] She is still praised in tantric practices that are followed in Kaula tradition.[3]

Etymology

Kubjikā means "to crook" or "to curve" in Sanskrit. Once lord Navātman/ Shiva embraced his consort Vakrikā and before the copulation, she suddenly felt shy and bent her body earning the name, Kubjikā, "the hunchback one" or Vakrikā (crooked one).[4]

Worship

Kubjikāmata Tatantra

A tantric text named the Kubjikāmata, dated to the ninth or tenth century, describes the worship of Kubjika. Though she was very famous among the tantric tradition of Kashmir Valley in the past, the Kubjikā cult was not familiar among the devotees. Though it seemed that Kubjikā was no longer worshipped in the valley either, in mid 1980s, she was discovered in a secret tantric worship that still exists among the

Newar people, as preserved in the Sarvāmnāya Tantra system.[5]

Ciñciṇīmata Tantra

According to the Ciñciṇīmata Tantra, a text that praises Kubjikā,

Dakshinamnaya, the cult of Kāmeśvarī. Nowadays,the southern Śrikula sect of Kameśvari and northern Kālikula sect of Kali are still known as Shaktism sects, while the other two (Kubjikā and Trika) are usually identified as Shaiva sects along with other Kashmiri Shaiva traditions.[7]

References

  1. ^ Dyczkowski, M. S. (1989). The canon of the Saivagama and the Kubjika Tantras of the western Kaula tradition. Motilal Banarsidass Publications.
  2. ^ Dyczkowski, M. S. (2001). The cult of the goddess Kubjika: a preliminary comparative textual and anthropological survey of a secret Newar goddess. Franz Steiner Verlag.
  3. ^ White, D. G. (2001). Tantra in practice (Vol. 8). Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
  4. ^ "Goddess Kubjika – A short overview". Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  5. ^ Heilijgers-Seelen, D. M., & Heilijgers-Seelen, D. (1994). The system of five cakras in Kubjikāmatatantra 14-16 (Vol. 9). Egbert Forsten Pub.
  6. ^ "The Kulamarga". Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Kubjika". Retrieved 16 March 2017.

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