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Sharadatilaka

A Sanskrit compendium of mantra science ascribed to Lakshmanadeshika, carrying the earliest fixed enumeration of the six acts that anyone can point to.

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  • The power in the phoneme Treatise

    In the Tantric traditions a mantra is a constructed sonic object with named parts, transmitted through initiation from a living teacher and kept private afterwards.…

  • 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…