Shabara Tantra

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• A genre that was always bilingual Treatise →

  A Śābara Tantra, on the only formal definition the catalogue literature offers, is a text of incantations that alternate between Sanskrit and Hindī, addressed to a…

• 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise →

  In a Prakrit romance finished in 779 of the Common Era, a lord in bark and berries speaks a *sāvara-vijjā*, a Śabara knowledge, into a young man's ear. The men…

• Two Śābaratantras Treatise →

  *Śābaratantra* is the title of no single book. At least two separate things answer to the name: a scripture called *Śābaram*, listed around 800 of the Common Era in…

• The name on everybody's lips Treatise →

  Nothing in the record reached here supports the popular claim that Gorakhnāth invented the *śābara* mantras. The corpus's own charter puts the revelation two…

• The lock has an address Treatise →

  The doctrine that Śiva locked every other mantra and left the Śābara corpus alone unlocked is real and written down, and its home is Hindī. Its earliest located…

• Duhāī: eight books, counted Treatise →

  Across eight independently compiled printed Śābara books, from six publishing houses in Delhi, Vārāṇasī and Prayāg, the most frequent recurrent marker is दुहाई,…

• Śavaripa the hunter Treatise →

  A Buddhist adept named Śabara stands fifth on the Tibetan list of the eighty-four Mahāsiddhas, the perfected ones, four places down the roll from the founder of the…

• The six acts Treatise →

  The *ṣaṭkarma*, the six acts, is the grid the Sanskrit mantric compendia use to sort magical ritual, and it does not organise the Śābara corpus. In the few pages…

• The word, reclaimed or not Treatise →

  The word was never taken up by the people whose name it is. From the earliest lexical record to the marketing of 2026, *śābara* was repurposed by parties standing…