Nityaklinnā

Nityaklinnā · nitya-klinnā, “the ever-moist one”

Jyeshṭhā has other meanings too: see all meanings of Jyeshṭhā. Kāma has other meanings too: see all meanings of Kāma.

Nityaklinnā is the Devī of the Nityaklinnā vidyā (her mantra). Agni Deva gives her mantra, her dhyāna (the form on which one meditates) and her pūjā among the many mantras of Chapter 313 of the Agni Purāṇa. Devī Nityaklinnā wears red garments and red ornaments and has six arms: in two hands she holds the pāśa (noose) and the aṅkuśa (goad), in two the kapāla (skull-bowl) and the kalpavṛksha (the wish-fulfilling tree), and with two she holds the vīṇā.

She is worshipped on a red triangle bearing an eight-petalled lotus, surrounded by eight śaktis beginning with Drāviṇī, eight devīs beginning with Nityā, the five Kāma-devas, and the ten consorts of Kāma. Her mūla-mantra has six aṅgas (limbs), and her vidyā closes with the words nityaklinne madadrave svāhā.

Her mantra and vidyā

Agni Deva gives the mūla-mantra of six aṅgas, which begins oṃ hrīṃ and contains the words nityaklinne madadrave, ending oṃ oṃ.

The full Nityaklinnā vidyā, Agni Deva says, is as given in the original: it runs from a mantra ending nityaklinne oṃ oṃ up to the mantra ending nityaklinne madadrave svāhā.

Source: Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 313

Her dhyāna

The Devī is to be meditated upon in this way: she wears red garments and red ornaments; in two hands she holds the pāśa and the aṅkuśa; in two hands the kapāla and the kalpavṛksha; and with two hands she holds the vīṇā.

Source: Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 313

Her pūjā

  1. On a red triangular cakra one contemplates an eight-petalled lotus.
  2. On it the eight śaktis are worshipped: in the directions beginning with the east, the four beginning with Drāviṇī; in the corners beginning with Īśāna (the north-east), the four beginning with Aparā. The eight śaktis are Drāviṇī, Vāmā, Jyeshṭhā, Āhlādakāriṇī, Aparā, Kshobhiṇī, Raudrī and Guṇaśakti.
  3. On the lotus petals the eight devīs are worshipped: Nityā, Abhayā, Maṅgalā, Navavīrā, Sumaṅgalā, Durbhagā, Manonmaṇī and Drāhā.
  4. Outside these, on five petals, the five Kāma-devas are worshipped: oṃ hrīṃ anaṅgāya namaḥ (Anaṅga), oṃ hrīṃ smarāya namaḥ (Smara), oṃ hrīṃ manmathāya namaḥ (Manmatha), oṃ hrīṃ mārāya namaḥ (Māra) and oṃ hrīṃ kāmāya namaḥ (Kāma). One contemplates them holding the pāśa, the aṅkuśa, the bow and the arrows.
  5. Outside these, on ten petals, in order, the ten consorts of Kāma are worshipped: Rati, Virati, Prīti, Viprīti, Mati, Durmati, Dhṛti, Vidhṛti, Tushṭi and Vitushṭi.
  6. On a siṃhāsana (lion-throne) one worships Ādhāra-śakti (the supporting power) and the lotus; on its petals one establishes and worships the hṛdayādi aṅgas (the limbs of the mantra, beginning with the heart); and on the central karṇikā (pericarp) of the lotus one worships the Devī.

Source: Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 313

Sources

  • Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 313