Navavarana puja

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Navavarana puja is a highly structured Sri Vidya ritual of worship centered on the Sri Chakra, involving progressive offerings through nine enclosures to the goddess Lalita Tripurasundari.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Navavarana puja canonical 3
Kamalamba Navavarana kritis 1
Sri Chakra puja 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindu ritual
Sri Vidya ritual
Tantric ritual
associatedWithDeityAspect Sri Vidya goddess
linked to: Sri Vidya
associatedWithPhilosophy Shakta Tantra
linked to: Shaktism

Sri Vidya Shakta tradition
linked to: Sri Vidya
associatedWithSchool Sri Vidya
associatedWithText Lalita Sahasranama tradition
linked to: Lalita Sahasranama

Lalita Trishati tradition
Saundarya Lahari tradition
linked to: Saundarya Lahari
centeredOn Sri Chakra
linked to: Sri Yantra
geographicAssociation Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
South India
Tamil Nadu
goal material and spiritual prosperity
realization of identity with the goddess
spiritual liberation (moksha)
hasComponent avahana (invocation)
homam (fire offering)
mantra japa
nyasa
progressive offerings
upachara (ritual offerings)
hasFeature sequential worship of avaranas
worship through nine enclosures
hasNumberOfEnclosures 9
hasStructure highly structured ritual sequence
includesWorshipOf kula devatas of the avaranas
various forms of Lalita
yoginis of the Sri Chakra
languageOfMantras Sanskrit
performedAt Shakta temples
linked to: Shakti temples

Sri Vidya peethams
linked to: Sri Vidya temples

domestic altars
performedBy Shakta Tantric practitioners
Sri Vidya upasaka
performedOn Sri Chakra diagram
Sri Yantra
religiousTradition Hinduism
requires Sri Chakra consecration
initiation in Sri Vidya
mantra diksha
ritualFocus inner journey through the nine enclosures
symbolism microcosmic representation of the universe in the Sri Chakra
usesConcept navavarana (nine enclosures)
worshipsDeity Lalita Tripurasundari
Sri Lalita Mahatripurasundari

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lalita Sahasranama usedIn Navavarana puja
Muthuswami Dikshitar associatedWith Kamalamba Navavarana kritis
linked to: Navavarana puja
Lalita Tripurasundari worshipForm Sri Chakra puja
linked to: Navavarana puja
Lalita Tripurasundari worshipForm Navavarana puja
Tripura Sundari worshipPractice Navavarana puja
subject linked to: Goddess Tripura Sundari