Tantra · Shaiva
Svacchandatantra
The principal tantra of the Mantrapitha, centred on Svacchandabhairava, and the one Bhairava scripture of its class to survive and be continuously read. It was printed with Kshemaraja's commentary in the Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies, and became the basis of the majority Saiva cult of medieval Kashmir.
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Appears in
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
… masculine mantra-deities, which the handbooks gloss as headed by the Svacchandatantra ; and the Vidyāpīṭha , the seat of the feminine vidyā -goddesses, the stratum from which much of later Śākta religion desce…