श्रीचक्रपूजा Pūjā Vidhānam
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The order of worship

Śrī Cakrapūjā Vidhānam श्रीचक्रपूजाविधानम्

Śrī Devī Pūjā Kalpaḥ — the whole rite in twelve khaṇḍas, from entering the hall to taking leave of the deity, with an alternative method and an appendix on the mudrās.

This is the practice side of the figure standing on the Śrī Cakra page. The sixth khaṇḍa is the āvaraṇa pūjā itself, first enclosure through ninth; the twelfth walks the same nine by the Devī’s khaḍgamālā. Where a rite belongs to a named part of the figure, it carries the enclosure as a locus and the figure will light it.

The order and page numbers follow the received sequence exactly. A few readings of the Telugu are marked to confirm rather than guessed at.

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After the twelve

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To frame this strand properly its chapter list is needed — one photograph of the contents page and the chapters drop straight in, each becoming a row like the ones above.

What is in hand

The source came to us as photographs of the printed pages, so those pages stand here as pictures until each rite is set in text: eight of the order of worship — the cover, both halves of the viṣayasūcī and the opening pages — and twelve of the measurable reading, with its cover and preface.

As each page is read and set, the rite takes its place here in full: the Telugu as printed, its transliteration, and the commentary beside it — the same shape a name takes on the Sahasranāma page, or a stanza on the sūktas page.

Locus in the figure

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Opening the cakra will light this enclosure in the figure and show what sits in it — its presiding deity, the yoginī group, the mudrā, the bīja and the seats counted clockwise from the top.

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