The Seat of the Mantras, the class of Bhairava tantras named for its masculine mantra-deities, and in the surviving literature a category carried by a single major early text, the Svacchandatantra. That text nowhere claims the seat for itself; the assignment is made for it by the Jayadrathayāmala, by Kṣemarāja, and by the colophons of its Nepalese manuscripts.

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• The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages →

  One of those, the Bhairava stream, divides into two seats: the Mantrapīṭha , the seat of the masculine mantra-deities, which the handbooks gloss as headed by the Svacchandatantra ; and the Vidyāpīṭha , the seat…

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