Yamala
yāmalaPair or union: a class of tantras of the Vidyapitha, each named for a deity whose consort it couples him with, as the Brahmayamala and the Rudrayamala. The Brahmayamala places itself third among eight yamalatantras in its own account of the canon.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
… Bhairavas, an ogdoad of the Mother-goddess tantras, an ogdoad of the Yāmalas or "pair" tantras, twenty-four scriptures before the list even reaches its miscellany.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
Then he quotes the Śrīkaṇṭhī , and the quotation gives the sixty-four as eight aṣṭakas , eight groups of eight: Bhairava, Yāmala, Mata, Maṅgala, Cakrāṣṭaka, Śikhāṣṭaka, Bahurūpa, Vāgīśa.
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
The Vidyāpīṭha then branches into the Yāmala texts and the Śakti-tantras, and the Śakti-tantras branch again into the tantras of Kālī and the Trika, or, in Sanderson's own careful parenthesis, "of what was late…
- The Manuals Treatise
The Kameshvara mantra in the Nityotsava follows neither of the two principal uddharas (mantric derivations) found in the Trikuta Rahasya of Rudra Yamala and the Brihad Badabanala .