Kṛṣṇādi-mantra-varga-varṇana
Classification of Krishna and Related Mantras
गरुडेति पदस्यांते चूडाननशुचिप्रिया । शिरोमन्त्रो गरुडतः शिखे स्वाहा शिखा मनुः ॥ १४३ ॥
garuḍeti padasyāṃte cūḍānanaśucipriyā | śiromantro garuḍataḥ śikhe svāhā śikhā manuḥ || 143 ||
À la fin de la formule, ajoute le mot « garuḍa ». Le mantra « cūḍānana-śuci-priyā » doit être placé sur la tête comme mantra de la tête. À partir de « garuḍa »—jusqu’à « svāhā »—se trouve le mantra de la śikhā, à appliquer sur la touffe (śikhā) lors du nyāsa.
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: bhakti
It teaches mantra-nyāsa: sanctifying the practitioner’s body by assigning specific mantra-parts to the head and śikhā, establishing protection and ritual readiness through Garuḍa-linked formulae.
By prescribing precise remembrance and placement of Garuḍa-mantras, it turns devotion into embodied practice—bhakti expressed through disciplined ritual attention (upāsanā with nyāsa).
Śikṣā/ritual phonetics and prayoga: how mantra segments are delimited (“from garuḍa onward… ending with svāhā”) and applied in nyāsa to specific body points (śiras and śikhā).