Tantra · Shaiva
Jayadrathayamala
A vast Kalikula tantra in four hexads, whose first section carries the fullest classification of the scriptural seats that survives, including the naming of the Mantrapitha's texts. It has still not been critically edited in full.
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- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
The Bhairava Tantras are usually described as divided into two seats or pithas: the Mantrapitha of the male mantra-deities and the Vidyapitha of the goddesses. The…
- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
Mantroddhara is the ritual extraction of a mantra out of the Sanskrit alphabet, and the name the tantric tradition gives to the practice of writing mantras in coded…