Shridhar B. Shrotri
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The Tantric texts which are influenced by the Atharvana Veda speak of ten Vidyas or cultic Goddesses whose worship is recommended for health and happiness in this world and for liberation from rebirth. The ten Vidyas are classified into three groups, Maha-Vidyas or extraordinary Vidyas, Vidyas or ordinary Vidyas and Siddha-Vidyas or adept Vidyas which are very arduous. The first among the ordinary Vidyas is Shodasi Vidya or Srividya.The Sri-Chakra is the ...
Reference from the Puranas on the religious and mythological significance of an ammonite (SĢaĢlagraĢma) stone emblem of Vishnu (Hindu diety).
"This book on Hanuman is an encyclopaedic work that is being presented to the scholarly world. It provides interesting and authentic information on Hanuman including the puja details. It is also fully illustrated.Like Ganesha, Hanuman is widely worshipped in the country, both in villages and in townships. He is also a tribal god and a folk deity, and around him cultic concepts have gathered. He is Rama's favourite attendant and also a Tantrik hero. He is ...
The principle of Vital Force, animating not only the body of a living being but all thing in this world, is probably the oldest of human beliefs. The present book deals with the concept of Vital Force in Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Pneuma, Yunani, Tantra-Yoga and Tibetan Medicine.
The ideology of the Nine Planetary deities (The Nava-Grahas) is an important one in our country. All the rituals, dairy and occansional, involve the propitiation of these Grahas. The volumes includes all the available texts relating to the worship of the planetary deities. Mainly it includes texts of Navagraha Puja Vidhi and Graha Yoga Paddhati, excepts from popular texts like Mantra Mahodadhi and from rare texts like Vaikhanasa-agama Khiladhikara and Bhrigu ...
Ganesa's popularity is manifold. He is the favourite god of the masses. He is also the favourite subject for curio-hunters and collectors of icons. Painters and sculptors have reveled in depicting this god in a variety of forms and postures. The Tantrik practitioners have found in him a beneficient poer, quick to acquire and enduring in nature. Literature about Ganesh is rematkable, varied and large. Works in Sanskrit, which appear to have provides the main ...
The Agama literature includes the Silpa-Sastra, which is basic to iconography Worship dealt with in the Agama necessarily involves images which are worship-worthy. The rituals and sequences that are elaborated in the Agama books find relevance only in the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine. And icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship. Agama texts are not easily accessible to the people. A large number of them are still ...
The Agama literature includes the Silpa-Sastra, which is basic to iconography. Worship dealt with I the Agama necessarily involves images which are worship-worthy. The rituals and sequences that are elaborated in the Agama books find relevance only in the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine. And icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship. Agama texts are not easily accessible to the people. A large number of them are still ...
The Agama literature includes the Silpa-Sastra, which is basic to iconography. Worship dealt with I the Agama necessarily involves images which are worship-worthy. The rituals and sequences that are elaborated in the Agama books find relevance only in the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine. And icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship. Agama texts are not easily accessible to the people. A large number of them are still ...
The Agama literature includes the Silpa-Sastra, which is basic to iconography. Worship dealt with I the Agama necessarily involves images which are worship-worthy. The rituals and sequences that are elaborated in the Agama books find relevance only in the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine. And icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship. Agama texts are not easily accessible to the people. A large number of them are still ...
Srividya is discipline where abounds considerable mystery, esotericism and occultism. There is among common people quite some ignorance concerning its philosophy and practice. There is also a host of doubts and uncertainties among practitioners themselves. The presence of different tradition in Srividya is a further source of confusion. The textual background to Srividya has almost become obscure and obsolete; it has become more a matter of individual lineages of ...
Health has been a continuing concern of man and the world is now recognizing the holistic principles of traditional medical systems. Ayurveda encompasses the entire corpus of Indian medical wisdom. Ayurveda is the science and art of good living. It is as much a worldview as a practical discipline. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine presents details from core texts in Sanskrit, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil, culled from forgotten and little known manuscripts ...
Durga Kosha is intended to be a comprehensive work on the Goddess Durga: mythology relating to Durga which is found in our Agama texts and iconographic manual and the worship details and rituals contained in our kalpas and puja-patalas. Durga is a popular deity in our country, and her puja is extensive as well as elaborate. There are numerous shrines to this Goddess, and collective as well as household worship of Durga is prevalent. An account ...
Sri Chakra has rightly been regarded as the 'Prince among Chakras' (Chakra-raja). It is the best known and most worshipped among hundreds of sacred designs that are prescribed in the traditional lore. Despite this celebrity an air of mystery surrounds this Chakra. Details concerning Sri-Chakra have always been looked upon as precious secrets; but there have always been tracts in Sanskrit seeking to explain the details of the Chakra, their significance, the way it ...
The Tantras can be both a fascinating and a frustrating study. There is a deliberate vagueness about them, and even the authorities are found to mislead. The erotic and occult involvements are needlessly brought into focus in recent publications. Here is an attempt to explore the psychological bases of the general Tantrik ideology. The author has tried to reconstruct the Tantrik system in terms of Yantra and Mantra. He has emphasised the value of Tantra for ...