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गारुड Gāruḍa

The 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.

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  • 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.

  • The Types of Tantra Lineages

    …ha assigns liberation to the Siddhānta, the removal of poisons to the Gāruḍa stream, exorcism to the Bhūta, the destruction of enemies to the Bhairava, and to the Vāma stream sarvavaśīkaraṇa , the subjection of…

  • 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 .

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