As drawings and painting are ephemeral, in course of time more permanent yantras were made. Coloured rice-powder is sometimes used to fill the geometrical figures created by the drawing, just as five differently coloured substances are used to cover the ground of the mandala. A Yantra has, like the sacrificial field, gates or doors (dvara) and a painted or inscribed or incised seat and all together or in the various petals of the lotus, inscribed or drawn, or in the different parts of other types of diagrams are inserted the latter of the bijamantra of the deity worshipped. The Vedic gods were invoked without any image and on the sacred grace (barhis, kusha) in a sacrificial field, and the sculptured deities that followed were seat on lotuses. Mantras, in the practices, are located in the body by nyasa they are also placed outside in a yantra (diagram) which represents, as it were, the body of the deity. These are the means by which the sadhaka invokes, and identifies himself with his chosen deity (ishtadevata).Īs mentioned above, Brahmanism, Jainism and Buddhism in course of time developed and incorporated Tantra and started making use of mantras and yantras. placing the deities on the different parts of the body by touching them with finger-tips and the palm, mostly of the right hand. special position of fingers, and nyasas, i.e. syllables of mystic significance peculiar to each deity, yantra, i.e., diagrams drawn on paper or inscribed in precious stone metal etc. The Tantric cult of all three religions of India lays special stress upon the mantras, i.e. Tantra is the realization of profound knowledge with the aid of mystic diagrams (yantras) and words possessing esoteric meanings (mantras). It is said that with the rise of Tantric practice in all three major religions of India Brahmanism, Jainism and Buddhism, mantras and yantras are became very prominent. This is the Shri-yantra the most famous among the yantras of Hinduism.
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