1.33 I will speack of the purification of knowledge acording to the kula practice. Having got up early and bowed to the kula tree (kulavṛkṣa), the sādhaka ....What the kulavṛkṣa means?
The footnote reads:
According to the Kāmeśvaratantra the kula trees are Ślesmātaka, the Karañja, Nimba, Aśvattha, Kadamba, Bilva, Vaṭa and Aśoka trees; ...I wasn't sure if this is the right interpretation here so, by searching the e-texts, I found references to it in many texts. One interesting and already translated reference is in 16'th chapter of Kubjikāmatatantra (the translation belongs to Dory Heilijgers-Seelen in The System of Five Cakras):
65. The twenty-five [maṇḍalas] are the branches of the big kula tree. [This tree] is richly endowed with flower-ornaments which represent authority and is wreathed with fruits which are knowledge;In the mean time I took a brief look at the texts returned by the search and it seems that this term most often has the sens of a real tree in the first list.
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