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 Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
…and-gesture three times, in the rite of the three daily junctures." — Svacchandatantra 2.136 Svacchanda Tantra 2.136, printed at page 75 of the first volume of the Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies.
- 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…
- 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…