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CHAPTER XV
笔滨罢贬础驰膧罢搁础
The mythology of pithas; the homology of
pithas and mystic limbs; pithas as lingas;
pithas as power-centres or wheels. The
relationship between pithas and conscious-
ness. Hithas as points of intersection between
the profane dyachrony and archetypal syn-
chrony. Categories of Saiva pilgrimage:
parikrama, pradaksina and jyotirlingas.
Pilgrimage has in Jaiva tantra a canonical
status, although the practice of circumambulating different pithas is
known long before tantric literature came to a head. There are various
attempts to give an explanation to the necessity of pilgrimage and its
origin in Saiva tantra; the explanations also depend on the Saivite
or another tradition. Among the vira Saivites
schools that propagated one
for instance, it is connected with the myth of their five acaryas:
Remika, D膩ruka, Ekor膩ma, Pandit膩r膩dhya and Visv膩r膩daya. These 膩c膩ryas
are supposed to have sprung from the Siva Lingas of Somesvara at Kolli-
paki, of vata at Vrksa Siddhesvara, of Ramanatha at Draks膩r膩ma ksetra,
of Mallikarjuna at brisaila and of visvanatha at Kasi. In connection
the five teachers there are still monasteries (matha)
and tantric shrines today%; they are places of constant pilgrimage:
with the names of