Shunyamayapramata, Shunyamaya-pramatri, Śūnyamāyāpramātṛ, Śūnyamāyāpramātā, Shunyamaya-pramata, Shunyamayapramatri: 1 definition

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The Sanskrit terms Śūnyamāyāpramātṛ and Śūnyamāyāpramātā can be transliterated into English as Sunyamayapramatr or Shunyamayapramatri or Sunyamayapramata or Shunyamayapramata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)

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Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama Texts

Śūnyamāyāpramātā (शून्यमायाप्रमाता) refers to one of the four forms of Lakṣmī as the “supreme knower” (pramātā), as discussed in chapter 7 of the Lakṣmītantra: a Pāñcarātra text comprising some 3600 Sanskrit verses exclusively devoted to Goddess Lakṣmī or Śrī (the consort of Viṣṇu) besides dealing with cosmology and practical regarding Vaishnava priests and temple-building programs.—Description of the chapter [pramātṛ-karaṇaprakāśa]: The 25 tattvas mentioned in the preceding chapter are now briefly described in a reverse order (1-17). As the supreme “knower” (Maker-Measurer [pramātā], Lakṣmī says that she has four forms—Śūnyamāyāpramātā, Prāṇamāyāpramātā, Aṣṭapurīpramātā and another one which is not named at this point 18-24); (however, when she chooses under the influence of māyā not to manifest her jñāna-and-kriyā, she takes three forms—jñānasaṃkoca, kriyāsaṃkoca and svarūpasaṃkoca (25-26); she may also choose to appear in her two-fold or her single form-but these have already been mentioned, she says (27). [...]

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Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.

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