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The Indian Tantras, which are numerous, constitute the scripture (sastra) of the Kaliyuga, and as such are a voluminous source of present and practical orthodox "Hinduism". The Tantra Sastra is, in fact, whatever be its historical origin, a development of the Karmakanda (using that term in the general sense of ritual section of the scripture), promulgated to meet the needs of the age. Siva says : "For the benefit of men of the Kali age, men bereft ...
The scene of the revelation of Mahanirvana-Tantra is laid in Himalaya, the Abode of Snow, a holy land weighted with the traditions of the Aryan race. Here in these lofty uplands, encircled with everlasting snows, rose the great mountain of the north, the Sapta-Kula-Parvata. Hence the race itself came, and there its early legends have their setting. There are still show at Bhimudiyar the caves where the sons of Pandu and Draupadi rested, as did Rama and his ...
This work is a description and explanation in fuller detail of the Serpent Power (Kundali-sakti), and the Yoga effected through it, a subject occupying a pre-eminent place in the Tantra-Sastra. It consists of a translation of two Sanskrit works published some years ago in the second volume of my series of Tantrik texts, but hither to untranslated. The first, entitled "Satcakra-nirupana" ("Description of and investigation into the six bodily ...
