Tantra · Shakta
Maharthamanjari
The fullest surviving work of the Krama, written at Chidambaram in the Tamil country around 1300. Seventy verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, with the author Maheshvarananda's own long Sanskrit commentary, the Parimala, which preserves extracts from several Krama books that are otherwise lost.
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- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
The verses are the Maharthamanjari , the flower-cluster of the mahartha .
- 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…