Scriptures
The received Sanskrit, verse by verse, beside our own English and Hindi translation — with a mechanical transliteration and, where the word-split is settled, the meaning of each word. Nothing is paraphrased away: a doubtful reading is printed as it stands and flagged, never quietly corrected.
श्रीशिवमहापुराण
Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa
One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, given in the form Vyāsa received it from Sanatkumāra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
- Sections
- 8
- Chapters
- 229
- Verses
- 12,235
- Cited by
- 436
In progress — next chapter 23 Sep
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Kulārṇava Tantra
The foremost Tantra of the Kaula school, given as a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī on Kailāsa. Seventeen ullāsas on the bondage of souls, the greatness of the Kula path, the guru, the disciple, initiation, mantra, and Kaula worship. Our own translation, verse by verse.
- Sections
- 1
- Chapters
- 14
- Verses
- 1,699
- Cited by
- 11
In progress — next chapter 21 Sep
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Tantrāloka
Abhinavagupta's eleventh-century encyclopedia of Kashmir Śaiva doctrine and practice, in thirty-seven āhnikas — the means (upāya) to liberation, the levels of reality, initiation, and the rites of the Trika and Kula traditions, with Jayaratha's Viveka as its classical commentary. Our own translation, verse by verse.
- Sections
- 1
- Chapters
- 3
- Verses
- 676
- Cited by
- 0
In progress — next chapter 21 Sep
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Tantrasāra
Abhinavagupta's own short digest of the Tantrāloka, in twenty-two āhnikas of plain prose with summary verses — the kinds of knowledge, the four means to liberation, the levels of reality, initiation and the daily and occasional rites, written "in straight words" for those who cannot enter the larger work. Our own translation, paragraph by paragraph.
Releasing 28 Sep
बृहत्तन्त्रसारः
Bṛhat Tantrasāra
Kṛṣṇānanda Āgamavāgīśa's sixteenth-century compendium of Śākta ritual from Bengal, distilled from some hundred and seventy tantras — the guru and disciple, initiation, mantra, rosary and puraścaraṇa, the daily worship and the mantras, meditations, hymns, armours and yantras of the deities, and the rites of homa, mudrā and vīra-sādhana. Our own translation, unit by unit.
Releasing 1 Oct
मन्त्रमहार्णवः
Mantra Mahārṇava
Mādhavarāya Vaidya's great ocean of mantras, gathered from some seventy tantras: forty waves in three khaṇḍas — the gods in the first, the goddesses in the second, the yakṣiṇīs, the six acts and the yantras in the third — each giving a deity's mantra with its nyāsas, meditation, yantra, puraścaraṇa, rites, armour and thousand names. Our own translation, unit by unit.
Releasing 1 Oct
श्रीविश्वकर्मप्रकाशः
Viśvakarma-prakāśa
A vāstu-śāstra given as a teaching from Śiva, handed down through Parāśara and Bṛhadratha to Viśvakarma, who declared it for the good of the world. Fourteen adhyāyas on examining land, laying out a house, doors, reservoirs, felling timber for construction, entering a new home, the marks of a fort, hidden defects in the ground, and the blemishes a building can carry. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Nov