garuda-tantra
गारुड GāruḍaThe canonical stream of tantric scripture concerned with snakebite, poison and venom-cure, named for Garuḍa, the eagle enemy of serpents. In the list the Pratiṣṭhālakṣaṇasārasamuccaya gives, items seven and eight of that column are Śābaram and Kālaśābaram.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It listed twenty-eight Siddhanta tantras, twenty-eight Garuda tantras, twenty Bhuta tantras, twenty-four Dakshina and twenty-four Vama tantras, and sixty-four of what it called the circle of Sadashiva.
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
The last section of this chapter comes to a ninth-century Śābaram in the Gāruḍa canon which would be relevant if it could be shown to be the same word doing the same job, and chapter five says it cannot.
- The six acts Treatise
…et out the rival filing, in which a Śābaratantra is classed among the Gāruḍa scriptures, the stream that deals with poison and its counteraction, which is a taxonomy of currents rather than of acts.
- Two Śābaratantras Treatise
In the Gāruḍa column, the column of the scriptures that deal with snakebite and poison, items seven and eight read Śābaram and Kālaśābaram .