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.
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The Vedas
The four saṃhitās: hymns, formulas and chants at the root of everything else.
ऋग्वेदसंहिता
Ṛgveda
The oldest of the Vedas: hymns of the seers to Agni, Indra, Soma, Savitṛ, Vāk and the other gods, in ten maṇḍalas with the khila hymns beside them. Its most-recited sūktas come first: the Puruṣa-sūkta, the Nāsadīya-sūkta on creation, the sūkta of the Gāyatrī, the sūkta that ends with the tryambakam verse, the Śrī-sūkta and the Devī-sūkta; the whole saṃhitā then follows in order, sūkta by sūkta, from the first maṇḍala. Our own translation, ṛc by ṛc.
Releasing 1 Dec
शुक्लयजुर्वेदसंहिता
Śukla Yajurveda
The White Yajurveda in its Mādhyandina recension, the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā: the formulas and verses the priest speaks while he does the work of the rite — the new- and full-moon offerings, the fire altar, the soma sacrifice, the royal consecration, the horse sacrifice — ending with the Rudra hymn, the Puruṣa hymn and the Īśa Upaniṣad. Our own translation, kaṇḍikā by kaṇḍikā — a work in progress.
Releasing 1 Jan
कृष्णयजुर्वेदीयतैत्तिरीयसंहिता
Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda
The Black Yajurveda in its Taittirīya recension: the formulas the priest speaks while he does the work of the rite, woven together with the explanations of why each act is done — the new- and full-moon offerings, the soma sacrifice, the royal consecration, the building of the fire altar with its hymn to Rudra, and the horse sacrifice. Our own translation, kaṇḍikā by kaṇḍikā — a work in progress.
Releasing 1 Mar
सामवेदसंहिता
Sāmaveda
The Veda of chant, in its Kauthuma recension: the verses on which the sāman melodies are sung, most of them drawn from the Ṛgveda and set in a new order for the soma rite. The Pūrvārcika gathers single verses to Agni, Indra and Soma Pavamāna; the Uttarārcika gives them in the groups that are sung together at the rite. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
अथर्ववेदसंहिता
Atharvaveda
The fourth Veda, in the Śaunaka recension: twenty kāṇḍas of hymns for the needs of daily life — healing, long life, the home, the fields, marriage, protection and death — beside hymns on the highest powers of the world. Our own translation, ṛc by ṛc — a work in progress.
Releasing 1 Mar
The Upaniṣads
The Vedas’ last word: the Self, Brahman, and the way inward.
ईशावास्योपनिषत्
Īśa Upaniṣad
The shortest of the principal Upaniṣads — eighteen mantras closing the Śukla Yajurveda: the Lord dwelling in all that moves, work done without grasping, knowledge and ignorance, and the prayer to see the truth behind the golden lid. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
केनोपनिषत्
Kena Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Sāmaveda that asks "by whom?" — by whom the mind thinks, the eye sees and the breath moves — and answers that Brahman is what the senses and mind cannot reach, then tells how the gods learned it from the yakṣa and from Umā. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
कठोपनिषत्
Kaṭha Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda in which the boy Naciketas, given away to Death by his father, waits three nights at Death's door and wins three wishes. For the third he refuses every pleasure and asks what happens to a person after death, and Death teaches him the Self that is never born and never dies. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
प्रश्नोपनिषत्
Praśna Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda in which six seekers come to the sage Pippalāda with fuel in their hands and, after a year of discipline, each asks one question: where do living beings come from, which powers hold up the body, where does the breath come from and how does it work, what sleeps and what stays awake in us, what the one who meditates on Om reaches, and where the person of sixteen parts is found. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
मुण्डकोपनिषत्
Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda in which the householder Śaunaka asks the sage Aṅgiras what it is that, once known, makes everything known. The answer divides knowledge into lower and higher, weighs ritual against the knowledge of the imperishable, and teaches the Self through images: the spider and its thread, the sparks from a fire, the bow of Om and the arrow of the self, the two birds on one tree, the rivers entering the sea. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
माण्डूक्योपनिषत्
Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad
The shortest of the principal Upaniṣads, from the Atharvaveda: twelve mantras that read the syllable Om as the whole of what is, and map its sounds a, u and m onto waking, dream and deep sleep, with the silence after it as the fourth, the Self. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
तैत्तिरीयोपनिषत्
Taittirīya Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Black Yajurveda in three parts. The first teaches the student: how to pronounce the Veda, how to meditate on joined sounds and on the great utterances, and the parting advice a teacher gives at the end of study. The second says that the one who knows Brahman reaches the highest, traces the world back to the Self, and peels the person into five layers, from food to bliss, before measuring the bliss of Brahman. The third tells how Bhṛgu, sent back again and again by his father Varuṇa, found Brahman step by step as food, breath, mind, understanding and bliss. Our own translation, anuvāka by anuvāka.
Releasing 1 Dec
ऐतरेयोपनिषत्
Aitareya Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Ṛgveda that begins with the Self alone before anything was. The Self creates the worlds, draws out a cosmic person, and from its opened organs come the powers of nature. Those powers, troubled by hunger and thirst, ask for a home; they enter the human body as speech, breath, sight and the rest. Food is made, and only the downward breath can catch it. Then the Self itself enters through the crown of the head, wakes to see that all is Brahman, and so is called Idandra. The second part tells of the three births of a person, and the third asks who this Self is and answers that consciousness is Brahman. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
छान्दोग्योपनिषत्
Chāndogya Upaniṣad
The long Upaniṣad of the Sāmaveda in eight parts. It begins with the chant itself, Om as the udgītha, and moves through meditations on the Sāman, the sun as honey and the teaching that all this is Brahman, the stories of Satyakāma and Upakosala, the five fires and the two paths after death, Uddālaka's lessons to Śvetaketu ending in "that you are", Nārada learning the infinite from Sanatkumāra, and the Self in the small space of the heart. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
बृहदारण्यकोपनिषत्
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
The great forest Upaniṣad of the White Yajurveda, the longest of the principal Upaniṣads, in six parts. It begins with the sacrificial horse as the universe and the Self that was alone in the beginning, and moves through the debates of Yājñavalkya at Janaka's court, his teaching to Maitreyī on the Self through which all is known, "not this, not this", the states of waking, dream and deep sleep, the three da's, the five fires and the rites of the householder. Our own translation, kaṇḍikā by kaṇḍikā.
Releasing 1 Dec
श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषत्
Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad
The Upaniṣad of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda that opens with a circle of seekers asking what the cause of the world is, and answers with the one God who rules all causes: known through meditation, the yoga of breath and mind, and the syllable Om; hidden in all beings as the inner Self; called Rudra, Śiva and the Lord; the master of māyā and the one to whom the seeker goes for refuge. It closes with the sage Śvetāśvatara teaching it, and with the call for devotion to God and to the teacher. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Dec
कौलोपनिषत्
Kaula Upaniṣad
A short Śākta upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda, in sūtras: knowledge as the one cause of liberation, familiar opposites called one, and the conduct of the follower of the Kaula way, who is inwardly a Śākta, outwardly a Śaiva and among people a Vaiṣṇava. Our own translation, line by line.
Releasing 1 Apr
त्रिपुरामहोपनिषत्
Tripurā Upaniṣad
A Śākta upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda in sixteen verses: Tripurā, the Goddess of the Śrī Cakra, her three cities and nine wheels, her names, her mantra in code, and her form as Śakti and Kāma joined. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
भावनोपनिषत्
Bhāvanā Upaniṣad
A short prose upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda that turns the worship of the Śrī Cakra into meditation: the body, the senses, the winds and the channels are set beside the diagram and its goddesses, and knower, knowing and known are seen as one. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 1 Apr
बह्वृचोपनिषत्
Bahvṛca Upaniṣad
A short Śākta upaniṣad of the Ṛgveda tradition: the Goddess as the one reality from whom Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra and all beings came, who is being, awareness and bliss, and whose many names are all hers. Our own translation, passage by passage.
Releasing 1 Apr
अरुणोपनिषत्
Aruṇa Upaniṣad
A string of Vedic mantras read as praise of the Śrī Cakra: the sages ask for the worlds, the practitioner is told to bathe in the nectar at the crown, and the city of eight wheels and nine gates with its golden sheath is described. Our own translation, mantra by mantra.
Releasing 1 Apr
कालिकोपनिषत्
Kālikā Upaniṣad
A short Śākta upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda on the worship of Kālikā: her mantra in code, her meditation image and diagram, the left-hand practice, the rising fire in the body and how the mantra is given. Our own translation, line by line.
Releasing 1 Apr
तारोपनिषत्
Tārā Upaniṣad
A short Śākta upaniṣad on the worship of Tārā: her name and mantra in code, the places and order of the worship, her fierce meditation image, the diagram and its guardians, and Brahmā's answer that Tārā is the highest mantra. Our own translation, line by line.
Releasing 1 Apr
अद्वैतभावनोपनिषत्
Advaitabhāvanā Upaniṣad
A very short upaniṣad in which Śiva teaches the Goddess a contemplation of non-duality: a long run of "I am" statements through which the practitioner declares himself one with everything. Our own translation, line by line.
Releasing 1 Apr
Itihāsa: the epics
The Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, and the Gītā spoken in its midst.
श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम्
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The ādikāvya — Vālmīki's telling of Rāma's life in seven kāṇḍas, from his birth in Ayodhyā through exile, the loss and recovery of Sītā, and his reign. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Jan
श्रीमन्महाभारतम्
Mahābhārata
Vyāsa's great itihāsa in eighteen parvas — the story of the Kuru house, the rivalry of the Pāṇḍavas and Kauravas, the war at Kurukṣetra and its aftermath, with the teachings on dharma woven through it. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता
Bhagavad Gītā
Kṛṣṇa's teaching to Arjuna on the field of Kurukṣetra — duty, action without attachment, knowledge, devotion and the nature of the Self — in eighteen adhyāyas of the Bhīṣmaparvan. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
18 chapters · 701 verses
The Purāṇas
The old stories of the gods, the worlds and the ways of worship.
ब्रह्मपुराणम्
Brahma Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that Lomaharṣaṇa told the sages at Naimiṣa — creation and the Manu-ages, the royal lines, the earth and its continents, the holy land of Puruṣottama in Utkala, the long greatness of the Godāvarī and its sacred fords, the life of Kṛṣṇa, and the paths of yoga and release. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
पद्मपुराणम्
Padma Purāṇa
The Purāṇa of the lotus, told by Pulastya to Bhīṣma and by the Sūta to the sages of Naimiṣa — creation from Brahmā's lotus at Puṣkara, the holy places, the royal lines, and the way to liberation. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 10 Nov
श्रीविष्णुपुराणम्
Viṣṇu Purāṇa
The Purāṇa told by the sage Parāśara to his disciple Maitreya — how the world comes from Viṣṇu and returns to him, the shape of the earth and heavens, the Manu-ages and the Veda, the royal lines, the life of Kṛṣṇa, and the ages and dissolutions to come. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Jan
श्रीशिवमहापुराण
Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa
One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, given in the form Vyāsa received it from Sanatkumāra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
238 chapters · 12,703 verses
In progress — next chapter 5 Nov
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
Bhāgavata Purāṇa
The Purāṇa of devotion, told by Śuka to King Parīkṣit in his last seven days and retold by Sūta to the sages of Naimiṣa — creation, the descents of the Lord, the great devotees, the royal lines, the life of Kṛṣṇa and his last teaching. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 7 May
नारदीयमहापुराणम्
Nārada Purāṇa
The Purāṇa in which Sanaka and his brothers teach Nārada — devotion to Viṣṇu, the greatness of the Gaṅgā, the duties of the classes and stages of life, the sciences of the Veda (phonetics, ritual, grammar, metre, astronomy), mantras and worship, a survey of all eighteen Purāṇas, and in its second half the story of Rukmāṅgada and Mohinī and the holy places. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Jan
मार्कण्डेयपुराणम्
Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa
The Purāṇa the sage Mārkaṇḍeya told Jaimini through four wise birds — the questions of the Mahābhārata answered, the story of Hariścandra, the journey of the soul through birth and death, the teaching of Dattātreya and of Madālasā to her son, the duties of the stages of life, the ages of the Manus, the Devī Māhātmya, and the lines of the kings. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Apr
आग्नेयमहापुराणम्
Agni Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that Agni taught to Vasiṣṭha — the avatāras of Viṣṇu, then a great handbook of worship and daily life: pūjā and mantras, the making and installing of images and temples, vows and gifts, sacred places, kingship and law, medicine, jyotiṣa, poetics and grammar. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
भविष्यमहापुराणम्
Bhaviṣya Purāṇa
The Purāṇa of what is to come — creation and the duties of each class and stage of life, the saṃskāras, the worship of the Sun, the building and consecration of temples and wells, the ages and royal lines, and the vows, gifts and festivals of the year that Kṛṣṇa taught Yudhiṣṭhira. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
ब्रह्मवैवर्तपुराणम्
Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that Sauti told the sages of Naimiṣa, in which Kṛṣṇa is the supreme Self from whom all creation unfolds — the making of the worlds, Prakṛti and the goddesses who are her forms, Rādhā, Durgā, Lakṣmī and Sarasvatī, the birth and deeds of Gaṇeśa, and the life of Kṛṣṇa in Gokula, Vṛndāvana and Mathurā. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणम्
Liṅga Purāṇa
The Purāṇa of the liṅga, told by Sūta to the sages of the Naimiṣa forest — creation and the ages, the pillar of light that Brahmā and Viṣṇu could not measure, the worship of Śiva in the liṅga, yoga and the Pāśupata way, the shape of the world and the royal lines, the deeds of Śiva, and in its second part vows, gifts, initiation and the rites of worship. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 6 Apr
वराहपुराणम्
Varāha Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that Viṣṇu as the Boar told the Earth after lifting her from the waters — creation, the stories of kings and sages, vows to Viṣṇu and the Goddess, the worship of images, the rites for the ancestors, the greatness of holy places such as Mathurā, and the paths of devotion and right conduct. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Feb
श्रीस्कन्दमहापुराणम्
Skanda Purāṇa
The largest of the Purāṇas, told by Sūta to the sages — the greatness of Śiva and his son Skanda, and of the holy places of India. It holds the Māheśvara Khaṇḍa — Dakṣa's sacrifice, the churning of the ocean, Skanda's war with Tāraka and the glory of Aruṇācala; the Vaiṣṇava Khaṇḍa — Veṅkaṭācala, Puruṣottama (Jagannātha), Badarī and the sacred months; and the Kāśī Khaṇḍa — the praise of Vārāṇasī as the city where death itself brings freedom. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Jan
श्रीवामनपुराणम्
Vāmana Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that the sage Pulastya told to Nārada — Śiva and Satī, Dakṣa's sacrifice and the burning of Kāma, Prahlāda's war and devotion, the Goddess who slew Mahiṣa, the holy land of Kurukṣetra and its lakes and rivers, the marriage of Śiva and Pārvatī and the birth of Skanda, Andhaka and the other asuras, and at the last Viṣṇu's birth as the dwarf who took the three worlds from Bali in three strides. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Jan
कूर्मपुराणम्
Kūrma Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that Viṣṇu, as the tortoise, taught to the sage Indradyumna and the sages at the churning of the ocean — creation, the ages and the stages of life, the royal lines, the earth and its holy places, the oneness of Viṣṇu and Śiva, and in its second half the Īśvara-gītā and Vyāsa-gītā on yoga, knowledge and right conduct. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Jan
श्रीमत्स्यमहापुराणम्
Matsya Purāṇa
The Purāṇa told by Viṣṇu in the form of a fish to King Manu at the great flood — creation, the royal lines of Sun and Moon, the wars of gods and asuras, vows and gifts, sacred places, the building of temples and images, and the ages to come. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Mar
श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्
Garuḍa Purāṇa
The Purāṇa that Viṣṇu told to Garuḍa and Garuḍa to Kaśyapa, handed on by Vyāsa to Sūta — the worship of Viṣṇu and the other gods, mantras, holy places and Gayā, the signs of gems and of the body, astrology, law and the duties of kings, vows, the royal lines, medicine, yoga and the knowledge of the Self, and in its latter part the journey of the dead, the rites that help them, and the fruits of deeds. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 16 Sep
ब्रह्माण्डपुराणम्
Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa
The Purāṇa of the cosmic egg — the creation and shape of the universe, the Manus and the ages, the lines of sages, gods and kings, the rites for the ancestors, the story of Paraśurāma, and at its close the Lalitopākhyāna, the story of the goddess Lalitā. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Apr
श्रीमद्देवीभागवतमहापुराणम्
Devī-bhāgavata Purāṇa
The Purāṇa of the Goddess, told by Sūta to the sages of the Naimiṣa forest as Vyāsa told it to King Janamejaya — the Goddess as the one power behind Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, her battles with Mahiṣa, Śumbha and Niśumbha, the royal lines and the old stories retold in her light, the shape of the world, her many forms, the Devī Gītā, daily worship and the Gāyatrī. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 27 Jan
श्रीदुर्गासप्तशती
Durgā Saptaśatī
The seven hundred verses of the Devī Māhātmya — the Goddess against Madhu and Kaiṭabha, Mahiṣa, and Śumbha and Niśumbha — with the kavaca, argalā, kīlaka and the other aṅgas recited around it. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 15 Dec
Darśana: the sūtras
Philosophy in its shortest form: Vedānta, Sāṃkhya, Vaiśeṣika, Yoga and Bhakti.
ब्रह्मसूत्राणि
Brahma Sūtra
Bādarāyaṇa's 555 sūtras on the teaching of the Upaniṣads, in four adhyāyas: that all the Upaniṣads point to Brahman as the cause of the world, that this teaching stands against every objection, the means by which Brahman is known, and the fruit of that knowledge. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra, with the Upaniṣad passage each one is taken to discuss.
Releasing 1 Dec
सांख्यकारिका
Sāṃkhya Kārikā
Īśvarakṛṣṇa's 72 verses on the Sāṃkhya teaching: why suffering sends us looking for knowledge, the twenty-five principles that make up the world, how nature (prakṛti) and the person (puruṣa) differ, and how seeing that difference brings freedom. Our own translation, verse by verse, with every term explained.
Releasing 1 Apr
वैशेषिकसूत्राणि
Vaiśeṣika Sūtra
Kaṇāda's 370 sūtras on the world as made of substances, qualities, actions, generality, particularity and inherence, in ten adhyāyas of two āhnikas each: the categories, the signs of earth, water, fire, air, space, time, direction, the self and the mind, atoms and bodies, action, dharma, the qualities, knowing, absence and cause. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra, with every term explained.
Releasing 1 Apr
पातञ्जलयोगसूत्राणि
Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali
Patañjali's 195 sūtras on yoga in four pādas: what yoga is and how the mind is stilled, the eight limbs of practice, the powers that come with deep concentration, and final freedom. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 15 Dec
हठयोगप्रदीपिका
Haṭhayogapradīpikā
Svātmārāma's short manual of haṭha yoga, taught as the stair to rāja yoga: the postures, the breath and the six cleansing acts, the mudrās and locks, and at last the inner sound and the state beyond mind. Four upadeśas, verse by verse, with our own translation.
Releasing 1 Apr
नारदभक्तिसूत्राणि
Nārada Bhakti Sūtra
The sage Nārada's 84 short sūtras on devotion in five adhyāyas: what bhakti is, why it is greater than action, knowledge and yoga, the means to it, the nature of love that cannot be put into words, and the glory of the single-hearted devotee. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 1 Apr
शाण्डिल्यभक्तिसूत्राणि
Śāṇḍilya Bhakti Sūtra
Śāṇḍilya's 100 sūtras on devotion in three adhyāyas, each in two āhnikas: that devotion is supreme attachment to God and not knowledge or action, why it is above the other paths, the signs by which it is known and the practices that lead to it, who may take them up, and how soul and Lord stand to each other. The companion to the Nārada Bhakti Sūtra. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 1 Apr
Tantra and mantra
Worship, initiation, mantra and the inner path, from Kashmir to Bengal.
श्रीश्रीकुलार्णवतन्त्रम्
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.
17 chapters · 2,058 verses · cited 11×
तन्त्रालोकः
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.
20 chapters · 4,191 verses
In progress — next chapter 8 Dec
तन्त्रसारः
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.
22 chapters · 350 verses
शारदातिलकतन्त्रम्
Śāradātilaka Tantra
A single sweeping compendium of mantra-śāstra in twenty-five paṭalas: it opens with the origin of sound and the letters, lays out the rites of initiation, and then moves deity by deity — Sarasvatī, Lakṣmī, the many forms of Devī, Gaṇapati, the planets, Viṣṇu and his avatāras, Śiva and his fierce forms — giving each one's mantra, dhyāna and yantra, before closing with a chapter on yoga.
25 chapters · 3,414 verses
श्रीप्रपञ्चसारतन्त्रम्
Prapañcasāra Tantra
A tantra attributed to Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, opening with the cosmology of the mātṛkā and the tattvas and moving through mantra-śāstra for Sarasvatī, Tripurā, Bhuvaneśvarī, Lakṣmī, Durgā, Agni, Gaṇeśa, Viṣṇu, Śiva and other devatās. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
10 chapters · 828 verses
In progress — next chapter 8 Dec
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 Jan
मन्त्रमहोदधिः
Mantra Mahodadhi
Mahīdhara's sixteenth-century ocean of mantras, with his own Nauka commentary: twenty-five taraṅgas covering the sādhaka's daily discipline and then, deity by deity, the mantroddhāra, nyāsas, meditation, yantra, puraścaraṇa and rites of Gaṇeśa, Kālī, Tārā, Chinnamastā, Tripurā, Bagalāmukhī, Śrī Vidyā, Hanumān, the navagrahas, Rudra and many more. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Jan
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 Jan
परशुरामकल्पसूत्रम्
Paraśurāma Kalpasūtra
The sūtra manual of Śrīvidyā worship: initiation, the rites of Gaṇeśa, Lalitā, Śyāmā, Vārāhī and Parā, the fire offering and the rules common to all of them, with the old appendix on yantras, mantras and their arrangement. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 15 Dec
शिवसूत्राणि
Śiva Sūtras
The 77 short sūtras of Kashmir Śaivism on the Self as awareness, in three unmeṣas, each opening one of the three ways: the way of Śiva, the way of Śakti and the way of the individual. They say what binds, what the mind and mantra are, how the fourth state runs through waking, dream and sleep, and how the freed person lives. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 1 Apr
स्पन्दकारिकाः
Spanda Kārikā
The 52 verses of Kashmir Śaivism on spanda, the slight stirring of awareness from which the world rises and into which it falls: how it can be recognised in every state, how the senses and mantras work by it, how a person is bound when it is not known and freed when it is. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
प्रत्यभिज्ञाहृदयम्
Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam
The 20 sūtras of Kashmir Śaivism on recognition of the Self, the heart of the whole teaching: awareness is free, the universe is its own showing, the mind is awareness drawn in, and the way back is by turning inward until the Self is recognised and lived. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 1 Apr
षट्चक्रनिरूपणम्
Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇa
Pūrṇānanda's short Sanskrit poem on the six wheels of the subtle body, from the root wheel to the thousand-petalled lotus above the head. It describes the channel up the spine, each wheel with its petals, letters, colour, element, deity and presiding goddess, the coiled power asleep at the base, and how she is woken and led upward to join the Highest. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
कुलानन्दतन्त्रम्
Kulānanda Tantra
A short Kaula dialogue of the Matsyendranātha school, sixty verses long. The Goddess asks Bhairava for the practical knowledge of the Kula path and he teaches ways of fixing the mind on points in the body: the lotuses at the head, the flame, the knot, the crossroads, the coiled channel. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
अकुलवीरतन्त्रम्
Akulavīra Tantra
A short Kaula text of the Matsyendranātha school on the Akulavīra, the great being beyond every school, rite and place. It is carried here in its two recensions. It says that all doctrines are nets of alternatives, describes the Akulavīra by what it is not, and says that for one who knows it, rules, vows and customs fall away. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
कुलचूडामणितन्त्रम्
Kulacūḍāmaṇi Tantra
A short Tantra of the Kaula school, given as a dialogue in which Bhairava asks and the Goddess teaches. Seven paṭalas on the Kula guru, the bath and worship of the Kula follower, the night rites with a Śakti, the signs to greet on the road, the sacred seats of the Goddess, the Kālī mantra and its attraction rite, the Kula wine and its substitutes. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
मातृकाभेदतन्त्रम्
Mātṛkābheda Tantra
A Tantra in fourteen paṭalas, a dialogue between Caṇḍikā and Śaṅkara (Hara and Gaurī). It opens with metal-making and the making of mercury ash, and goes on to the body's centres and the birth of a child, the Kaula meal and fire-pit, wine and the "cause", the great rosary, the worship of Tripurā, Cāmuṇḍā and Śiva, faults in a mantra and how to mend them, and the guru and the woman practiser. It ends with a hymn to the guru's sandals. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
योनितन्त्रम्
Yoni Tantra
A short Kaula Tantra in eight paṭalas, given as a dialogue between Pārvatī and Śiva: the worship of the yoni as the seat of the Goddess, the kinds of woman to be honoured, the rites with the five tattvas, the heroic practice, the place of Kālī and the other Mahāvidyās, and the rule of secrecy and of taking a teacher. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
डामरतन्त्रम्
Ḍāmara Tantra
A Tantra of the Ḍāmara class, given as a dialogue between Unmatta Bhairava and Bhairavī. After an opening of invocation and first mantras, its paṭalas set out the six rites (ṣaṭkarma), such as vaśīkaraṇa, stambhana and māraṇa, with the mantras, herbs, pastes and times they call for, and go on to yakṣiṇī practices, medicines and the treatment of poison. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
तोडलतन्त्रम्
Toḍala Tantra
A Tantra in the form of a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī, in ten paṭalas. It names the form of Śiva that stands beside each of the Mahāvidyās, teaches the body as a cosmos with its channels and the rising of the kuṇḍalinī, gives the mudrās, the mantras of Kālī and Tārā and the daily rite of worship, the earthen worship of Śiva, and the hidden sense of the seed syllables. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
कालीतन्त्रम्
Kālī Tantra
A short Tantra of Kālī in twelve paṭalas, given as Bhairava's answers to the Goddess on Kailāsa. It teaches the twenty-two syllable mantra of Dakṣiṇā Kālī, its placings and meditation, the yantra and its attendant goddesses, the preliminary practice, rites for particular wishes, the hero's practice in the cremation ground, the general and the secret conduct of the path, and a second, six-syllable vidyā. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
गुप्तसाधनतन्त्रम्
Guptasādhana Tantra
A Śākta Tantra in twelve paṭalas, a dialogue of Pārvatī and Śiva on the hidden practice of the Kula way. It teaches the guru and the woman guru, the daily round of japa, the year-long course of chanting, the worship of Dakṣiṇā Kālī, Dhanadā and Mātaṅgī with their hymns and armours, the five tattvas told in coded letters, the letter-chart that tests a mantra, the rosary of letters, and the Gāyatrī. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
उड्डामरेश्वरतन्त्रम्
Uḍḍāmareśvara Tantra
A Tantra of practical rites in fifteen paṭalas, told by Śiva to Pārvatī: rites for making a spirit seize someone, for madness, for setting people at odds, for driving them out, for stopping water and fire, and for bringing people under one's will, with their herbs, mantras and charms, cures for the harm they cause, rites for children, the thirty-six yakṣiṇīs, and a long treasury of mantras. Our own translation, verse by verse and passage by passage.
Releasing 1 Apr
निरुत्तरतन्त्रम्
Niruttara Tantra
A Kaula Tantra of the Kālī family, given as a dialogue between Pārvatī and Śiva. Paṭalas on Dakṣiṇā Kālī and the other Siddhavidyās: the three bhāvas, the Kālī and Śrī families, the mantra, meditation and worship of Dakṣiṇā Kālī, protective armour and hymn, the night rites, and the practice of the Kula path. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
श्रीनेत्रतन्त्रम्
Netra Tantra
The Śaiva tantra of the Eye of Śiva and the mantra called Mṛtyujit, the conqueror of death, given as a dialogue between Śiva and the Goddess in twenty-two adhikāras. It sets out the mantra and its six limbs, the rites of worship and the many uses of the mantra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
योगिनीतन्त्रम्
Yoginī Tantra
A Kālī Tantra of the Kāmarūpa tradition, given as a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī. The Pūrva khaṇḍa opens with the dhyāna of Kālī and the greatness of the guru, and goes on to the goddess's mantras, worship, the places and rites of the Kaula path. The Uttara khaṇḍa deals with the sacred sites of Kāmarūpa and the Pīṭhas. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
रुद्रयामलम् (उत्तरतन्त्रम्)
Rudrayāmala, Uttaratantra
The Uttaratantra of the Rudrayāmala, a Śākta tantra in the form of a dialogue between Bhairava and the Devī. It opens with a long list of the goddesses, vidyās and powers whose practice the book will teach, and goes on to mantra, yantra, worship and the rites of the Kula path. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
कङ्कालमालिनीतन्त्रम्
Kaṅkālamālinī Tantra
A short Tantra of Kālī in five paṭalas, given as a talk between Bhairava and the Goddess. It names the fifty letters of the alphabet and builds the seed-syllables from them, teaches the yoni mudrā and its armour, the worship of the guru, the mantras and daily worship of Mahākālī, and, at length, the rules of puraścaraṇa, the ash and rudrākṣa, the worship of the letters and the Ḍākinī seeds. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
Jyotiṣa: the chart and time
The classical texts of astrology and auspicious timing, read as written.
बृहत्पाराशरहोराशास्त्रम्
Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra
The foremost classic of Vedic natal astrology, given by Sage Parāśara to his disciple Maitreya as a dialogue: ninety-seven adhyāyas on the nature of the planets and signs, the ascendant and the divisional charts, the significations of the twelve houses, the daśā systems of planetary periods, yogas, and the reading of a birth chart house by house and planet by planet. Our own translation, verse by verse.
1 chapter · 24 verses
In progress — next chapter 2 Nov
श्रीफलदीपिका
Phaladīpikā
Mantreśvara's handbook of phalita jyotiṣa — what the twelve bhāvas carry, how the grahas are dignified and afflicted, the yogas, the daśās and the reading of a chart. Terse, ordered and much quoted. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 15 Nov
जातकपारिजातः
Jātaka Pārijāta
Vaidyanātha's compendium of jātaka — the rāśis and grahas, the length of life, yogas and rājayogas, the twelve bhāvas, the horoscopes of women, the kālacakra and the daśās, gathered from Garga, Parāśara and the Sārāvalī. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Dec
श्रीमुहूर्तचिन्तामणिः
Muhūrta Cintāmaṇi
Rāma Daivajña's manual of muhūrta — which tithi, nakṣatra and lagna carry each undertaking, from the saṃskāras and marriage to journeys and the building of a house. Terse, practical and the standard reference for choosing a time. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 15 Nov
Dharma: law and observance
How to live, and when to fast, feast and perform each rite.
मनुस्मृतिः
Manusmṛti
The Laws of Manu in twelve adhyāyas: creation, the duties of the stages of life, rites, food and purity, kingship and law, marriage and inheritance, expiation and the fruits of action. The standard text with our own translation, verse by verse; explanations report the text neutrally.
Releasing 15 Dec
श्रीधर्मसिन्धुः
Dharmasindhu
A working manual of dharma — the rite for the day, the exception that overrides it, and whom each applies to. It settles what the tantra corpus does not touch: which observance falls on which tithi, how a vrata is begun and broken, what a saṃskāra requires, and the deśa-kāla-gotra-nāma of the saṅkalpa that opens any of them. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
12 chapters · 491 verses
In progress — next chapter 2 Nov
श्रीनिर्णयसिन्धुः
Nirṇayasindhu
The nibandha that settles disputed practice by weighing the authorities against each other — which tithi carries an observance when two are possible, whose ruling prevails when the smṛtis disagree, and on what grounds. Where Dharmasindhu gives the answer, this gives the argument. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 15 Nov
Artha and kāma
Statecraft, wealth and love: the worldly śāstras.
शुक्रनीतिः
Śukranīti
The teaching on kingship that Śukra, teacher of the asuras, gave in answer to their questions: the king's duties and daily round, his ministers and officers, the conduct of ordinary life, friends and foes, the treasury and the jewels, the classes and the sixty-four arts, temples and images, courts and law, forts, and the army and war. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Jan
कौटिलीयम् अर्थशास्त्रम्
Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra
The classical treatise on statecraft and wealth: the king's training, the running of the state and its departments, law and courts, policing, the circle of kings, the six measures of foreign policy, war, and secret means. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 12 Jan
चाणक्यनीतिः
Cāṇakya Nīti
The seventeen chapters of sayings on how to live, earn, choose friends, bring up children, deal with kings and the wicked, and use learning, attributed to Cāṇakya and best known in Hindi homes as the Cāṇakya Nīti. Short verses on wealth and family, on women and on caste as the text states them, on friends and enemies, and on what lasts. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
कामसूत्रम्
Kāma Sūtra
Vātsyāyana's treatise on kāma, desire and pleasure, as one of the three aims of life beside dharma and wealth — the education and daily life of a cultivated person, sexual union in all its forms, choosing and winning a bride, the life of a wife, the pursuit of other men's wives, the courtesan's profession, and recipes for attraction and virility. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 1 Feb
Mokṣa: freedom
The fourth aim: short teachings on the Self and release.
अष्टावक्रगीता
Aṣṭāvakra Gītā
King Janaka asks how knowledge, freedom and dispassion are won, and the sage Aṣṭāvakra answers: you are already the one pure awareness, never bound, never the doer. Twenty short chapters of teaching and Janaka's own words of realisation. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 19 Dec
शिवगीता
Śiva Gītā
In the forest, grieving for Sītā, Rāma turns to Śiva, and Śiva appears and teaches him: the Self, the body and its making, devotion, worship and release. Sixteen chapters of the Padma Purāṇa. Our own translation, verse by verse.
16 chapters · 768 verses
पार्वतीगीता
Pārvatī Gītā
Born as Pārvatī in the house of the mountain king, the Goddess shows Himavān her true form and teaches him: knowledge of Brahman, yoga, devotion and how she is to be worshipped. Five chapters of the Mahābhāgavata. Our own translation, verse by verse.
5 chapters · 217 verses
विज्ञानभैरवः
Vijñāna-Bhairava
The goddess asks Bhairava what his true form is and by what means one can enter it, and he answers with a hundred and twelve ways in: the breath and its still gaps, sound melting into silence, space and emptiness, a steady gaze, sudden joy or fear, and the rising and falling of every wish. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
विवेकचूडामणिः
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
A dialogue between a teacher and a seeker in about 580 verses, traditionally ascribed to Śaṅkarācārya. It says who is fit to ask, how to approach a teacher, how to tell the Self from the body, breath, mind, intellect and bliss, why the world is Brahman alone, what dispassion and silence bring, and what a person freed while alive is like. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
आत्मबोधः
Ātmabodha
A short teaching in 68 verses, traditionally ascribed to Śaṅkara, on knowing the Self: how ignorance, and nothing else, makes the world look separate; how the Self stays untouched beside body, senses and mind; how to hold on to "I am Brahman" until it settles; and how the knower lives. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
भजगोविन्दम् (मोहमुद्गरः)
Bhaja Govindam
The much-sung hymn that begins Worship Govinda, you fool. In 31 plain, sharp verses, traditionally ascribed to Śaṅkara, it asks why we chase wealth, desire and praise when life is short and death is certain, and turns the listener to good company, steady practice and the knowledge that frees. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
अवधूतगीता
Avadhūta Gītā
Dattātreya's song of non-dual realisation in eight chapters: the Self is one, formless and never bound, so there is nothing to worship, reach or give up. Two-line verses that speak to the listener and to the mind, with a last chapter on the marks of the avadhūta. The companion to the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
Vāstu and śilpa
Building, land and the house, as the texts lay them out.
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 Apr
More texts
Further works being added.
हितोपदेशः
Hitopadeśa
The book of good counsel. A teacher takes a king's unlettered sons and, in six months, teaches them how to live and rule through animal fables: how to win friends, how friends are parted, war and peace. Verses of conduct are set inside stories of the crow, the mouse, the deer and the tortoise, and the jackals and lions of the court. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
रतिरहस्यम्
Ratirahasya
Kokkoka's medieval handbook of the art of love — the four types of women and the lunar calendar of their desire, signs of body and temperament, the regions and their women, embraces, kisses, scratching and biting, positions of union, the arts of winning and keeping a lover, and recipes for attraction. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
चतुर्वर्गचिन्तामणिः
Caturvarga Cintāmaṇi
Hemādri's great digest of dharma: what the smṛtis and purāṇas say on gifts, vows, the timing of rites, śrāddha and expiation, gathered and weighed. Later digests such as Nirṇayasindhu and Dharmasindhu draw on it. Our own translation, a work in progress.
Releasing 1 Apr
योगवासिष्ठः
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
The long dialogue in which the sage Vasiṣṭha answers young Rāma's despair at the world — the nature of the mind, effort and fate, bondage and freedom, and the way to a still and free life, told through tales within tales. Our own translation, verse by verse — a work still in progress.
Releasing 1 Apr
वेदाङ्गज्योतिषम्
Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa of Lagadha
The oldest Indian text on the calendar, in two recensions: the Ṛgveda (Ārca) Jyotiṣa of 36 verses and the Yajurveda (Yājuṣa) Jyotiṣa of 43 verses. It keeps time by a five-year yuga: the turnings of the sun, the stars, the lunar days, the full-moon and new-moon times, and the extra months. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
पाणिनीयशिक्षा
Pāṇinīya Śikṣā
The Vedāṅga of phonetics, in two recensions: the Ṛk form of 60 verses and the Yajus form of 35 verses. It counts the sounds of speech, tells how breath becomes voice, names the places and efforts that make each letter, teaches the three accents and the lengths of vowels, and lists the faults and virtues of a reciter. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 3 Apr
छन्दःसूत्रम्
Piṅgala's Chandaḥsūtra
The Vedāṅga of metre, in eight adhyāyas of sūtras: the terms for long and short syllables and the eight three-syllable groups, the Vedic metres from gāyatrī upward, the metres whose lines are unequal, the regular metres of classical verse, and the counting rules that list every possible pattern of a line. Our own translation, sūtra by sūtra.
Releasing 5 Apr
निघण्टुः निरुक्तं च
Nighaṇṭu and Nirukta
The Vedāṅga of word-origins. The Nighaṇṭu is the old list of Vedic words, grouped by meaning, and Yāska's Nirukta explains them: how a word is made, why it means what it means, and what the gods of the hymns are. Our own translation, khaṇḍa by khaṇḍa.
Releasing 13 Apr
श्रीनाथनवरत्नमालिका
Śrīnāthanavaratnamālikā
A short Tantric hymn to the Guru in ten verses, each ending on the same line of praise. It builds the Guru's form out of the 21,600 breaths of a day, giving each share of the breath to a part of the tradition: the daily vidyās, the nine Nāthas, the tattvas, the sixteen Nityās, the hours, the signs, the planets, the letters and the Śaktis of the Śrīcakra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
कामकलाविलासः
Kāmakalāvilāsa
A short Śrīvidyā text in fifty-five verses on the Goddess Tripurasundarī as Kāmakalā, the figure of three bindus. It starts from Śiva and Śakti, light and its awareness, builds the letters and elements from the bindus, and then raises the Śrīcakra from its centre outward, giving each ring its goddesses and its level of speech. It ends with the line of gurus through which the vidyā came down. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
ज्ञानकारिका
Jñāna Kārikā
A short Kaula text of the Matsyendranātha school, in three paṭalas: liberation as freedom from every support, the inquiry into dharma and adharma as the two ropes of the world, and the conduct of the yogi with its lonely places and signs read as things within the body. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
सिद्धसिद्धान्तपद्धतिः
Siddhasiddhāntapaddhati
Gorakṣanātha's handbook of the Nātha Siddhas, in six upadeśas: how a body arises from the one Nameless and its five powers, an inquiry into the body, the knowing of the body, the power that supports every body, the making of body and supreme state one taste, and the marks of the Avadhūta yogi. Our own translation, unit by unit.
Releasing 1 Apr
योगविषयः
Yogaviṣaya
A short Nātha text of thirty-three verses spoken by Mīnanātha: the six wheels and where they sit, the three channels, the ten winds and the three knots, Om read as a, u and m, an inner worship with the mind as the flower, and the breath-word haṃsa. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
वरिवस्यारहस्यम्
Varivasyārahasya
A Śrīvidyā text on the fifteen-syllable mantra, in two aṃśas of verses. The first spells out the mantra letter by letter, with its sounds, its timing and the subtle stages of its nāda. The second gives its fifteen meanings, from the Mother and the Śrīcakra to the oneness of soul and Brahman. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
तारारहस्यम्
Tārārahasya
A Bengal digest of the worship of the goddess Tārā, in four paṭalas of verse and prose. It tells how Tārā took form, sets out the seeker's day from the morning meditation to the twilight rites, names the seed-syllables and the Vidyās of her forms, and gathers what older Tantras say on initiation, the rites of worship, the use of the mantra and the conduct of the teacher and the seeker. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
शतकत्रयम्
Bhartṛhari's Śatakatraya
Three centuries of Sanskrit verses on wise conduct, desire and renunciation, traditionally ascribed to Bhartṛhari: the Nīti-śataka, the Śṛṅgāra-śataka and the Vairāgya-śataka. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
योगिनीहृदयम्
Yoginīhṛdaya
The heart of the Goddess Tripurā in three paṭalas, given as Bhairava's answer to the Goddess. It names three secret keys, saṅketas: of the cakra, of the mantra and of worship. The first shows how the Śrīcakra unfolds from the Goddess's own awareness and names its nine rings; the second gives the mantra and its parts; the third gives the order of worship. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
नित्योत्सवः
Nityotsava
A manual of the daily and festival worship of Tripurasundarī in the Śrīvidyā tradition, built on the Kalpasūtra of Paraśurāma. It gives the order of initiation, the worship of Gaṇapati, the full worship of Śrī with its daily rites, mantras, nyāsas and fire offerings, the worship of Śyāmā, Vārāhī and Parā, and the rules for japa, the rosary and the fire. Mostly prose, with mantras and some verses. Our own translation, paragraph by paragraph.
Releasing 1 Apr
गुह्यकालीखण्डः
Guhyakālīkhaṇḍa
The Guhyakālī section of the Mahākāla Saṃhitā, a great Tantra of Kālī worship, given as Mahākāla's teaching to the Goddess. It opens with the eighteen kinds of Guhyakālī mantras and their meditations. Our own translation, verse by verse.
Releasing 1 Apr
मनुष्यालयचन्द्रिका
Manuṣyālaya-candrikā
A Kerala treatise on building the human dwelling, in seven adhyāyas: choosing and testing the land, laying out the vāstu plan from the true east–west line, the measures and the yoni and the rest by which a house is made to agree with its owner, the hall and the joined halls, the parts of the house from base to post and beam, the roof, and finally doors, outbuildings, wells and the rites that close the work. Our own translation, verse by verse, with the technical names of the parts kept as they stand.
Releasing 1 Apr
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