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The '''''Khecarīvidyā''''' ([[Sanskrit]]: खेचरीविद्या), an early [[Tantras (Hinduism)|tantric]] text on [[Hatha yoga]] written around the 14th century, teaches only [[Khecarī mudrā|khecarīmudrā]], one of several [[Mudra (Yoga)|yogic seals or mudras]], and is a major source for that method.{{sfn|Mallinson|2007}} This was meant to give the [[yogin]] access to stores of [[amrita]] in the body, and to raise [[Kundalini|Kundalinī]] via the six [[chakra]]s.{{sfn|Mallinson|2016|pp=109–140}}{{sfn|Mallinson|2011|p=771}}{{sfn|Mallinson|Singleton|2017|pp=213–214}}<br />
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== Text ==<br />
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The ''Khecarīvidyā'' is written as a dialogue between the god [[Shiva|Śiva]] and his partner, [[Devī]]. The text was originally a single chapter about the deity Khecarī's [[mantra]] (the "vidyā") in the [[Kaula (Hinduism)|Kaula tradition]] of [[Tantras (Hinduism)|tantric Shaivism]]. It was then reorganised into three sections and extended with an account of khecarīmudrā, complete with praise of the use of alcohol, ''madirā''. A fourth section, on magical herbs, was then added, by which time most of the Kaula aspects had been edited out to suit a hatha yoga readership.{{sfn|Mallinson|2003|loc=Abstract, Introduction pp. 1–5}}{{sfn|Mallinson|2007|p=13}}<br />
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== Khecarī mudrā ==<br />
[[File:Khechari Mudra English Coloured.jpg|thumb|upright=2|Four stages of [[Khecarī mudrā]]. The tongue (red) is progressively stretched, and the [[lingual frenulum]] sufficiently severed, over a period of months, until it can be turned back so as to reach inside the nasal cavity, and supposedly manipulate the flow of ''[[bindu (symbol)|bindu]]''.{{sfn|Mallinson|Singleton|2017|pp=228, 231–232}}{{sfn|Singleton|2010|p=29}}]]<br />
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''Khecarī Mudrā'' ([[Sanskrit]], खेचरी मुद्रा) is a hatha yoga practice carried out by curling the tip of the tongue back into the [[mouth]] until it reaches above the [[soft palate]] and into the [[nasal cavity]]. In the full practice, the tongue is made long enough to do this with many months of daily tongue stretching, and by gradually severing the [[lingual frenulum]] with a sharp implement, again little by little over a period of months.{{sfn|Mallinson|Singleton|2017|pp=247–248}}{{-}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* {{cite book | last=Mallinson | first=James | author-link=James Mallinson (author) | year=2003 | title=The Khecarīvidyā of Adinathā: a critical edition and annotated translation | publisher=Oxford University (D.Phil thesis) |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:945071bf-3282-4492-8f18-159417f5d554 |quote=31 witnesses have been collated to establish the critical edition.}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Mallinson | first=James | author-link=James Mallinson (author) | year=2007 | title=The Khecarīvidyā of Adinathā | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-0-415-39115-3}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Mallinson |first=James |author-link=James Mallinson (author) |work=Haṭha Yoga |title=The Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 3 |editor=Knut A. Jacobsen |display-editors=etal |year=2011 |publisher=Brill Academic |isbn=978-90-04-27128-9 |pages=770–781 |url=http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17971/1/Hatha%20Yoga2.pdf}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Mallinson |first=James |author-link=James Mallinson (author) |chapter=Śāktism and Haṭhayoga |title=Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism: History, Practice and Doctrine |editor-link=Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen |editor-last=Wernicke-Olesen |editor-first=Bjarne |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2016 |pages=109–140 |isbn=978-1317585213 |url=http://www.khecari.com/resources/SaktismHathayoga.pdf}}<br />
* {{cite book | last1=Mallinson | first1=James |author1-link=James Mallinson (author) |last2=Singleton |first2=Mark |author2-link=Mark Singleton (yoga scholar) | title=Roots of Yoga |title-link=Roots of Yoga | publisher=Penguin Books | year=2017 | isbn=978-0-241-25304-5 | oclc=928480104}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Singleton | first=Mark |author-link=Mark Singleton (yoga scholar) | title=Yoga Body : the origins of modern posture practice | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-19-539534-1 | oclc=318191988 | title-link=Yoga Body}}<br />
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