कर्तव्यस्तुम्बुरुर्देवो मातृमध्यगतः प्रभुः | उपविष्टो वृषे कार्यः शर्ववत् स चतुर्मुखः || उपविष्टस्तु कर्तव्यः स तु पार्थिवसत्तम | महादेवेन तस्योक्तं रूपं ते सकलं मया

  To attain dvijatva in the true sense, a knower of mantra śāstra needs to accomplish śuddhi of yoni, bīja, āhāra, deśa and bhāva. All

  In the Uttarāmnāya Pancha-Kālikā krama followed at the level of Sāmrājya Medhā, the six deities worshiped are: 1. Siddhikarālī – Bharatopāsitā Guhyakālī 2. Siddhi

  प्रसीद भगवन् मह्यमज्ञानात्कुण्ठितात्मने | तवांघ्रिपङ्कजरजोरागिणीं भक्तिमुत्तमाम् || अज प्रसीद भगवन्नमितद्युतिपञ्जर | अप्रमेय प्रसीदाऽस्मद्दुःखहन् पुरुषोत्तम || स्वसंवेद्यस्वरूपात्मन्नानन्दात्मन्ननामय | अचिन्त्यसार विश्वात्मन् प्रसीदेश निरञ्जन || प्रसीद तुङ्ग

    There is a peculiar correspondence between the main mantras and dīkṣā of śrī and Kālī kulas. 1. Bālā Tripurasundarī – ādyā Kālī 2.

  Maya Stava, a Puranic hymn, is an interesting study. शुक उवाच भल्लाटनगरं त्यक्त्वा विष्णुभक्तः शशिध्वजः | आत्मसंसारमोक्षाय मायास्तवमलं जगौ || शशिध्वज उवाच ॐ ह्रीङ्कारां

    According to tāntric lore, Mahiṣāsura first took birth in Raṃbhakalpa as the son of Raṃbhāsura. In that birth, he was slain by Parāmbā

  – Umakant Shah According to Jainism, the shape of the Cosmos is fixed and unchangeable. Fourteen rajjus in height, it is not uniform in

  – David Seyfort Ruegg We find in Kumārila’s ślokavārttika a chapter entitled śūnyavāda that follows immediately another entitled Nirālambanavāda. Kumārila was evidently a contemporary of Dharmakīrti,

    सर्वशृङ्गारवेषाढ्यां तुङ्गपीनपयोधराम् | गङ्गाधरप्रियां देवीं मातङ्गीं नौमि सन्ततम् || नमस्ते साधु विश्वेशि कामितार्थप्रदे शिवे | श्यामवर्णे मदाघूर्णे श्यामले मुनिपूजिते || नमो नमस्ते मातङ्गि

    ॐ नमो भगवते नारसिंहाय सर्गे ब्रह्मा स्थितौ विष्णुः संहारे च तथा हरः | वरुणो वायुराकाशो ज्योतिश्च पृथिवी तथा || दिशश्च विदिशश्चाऽपि तथा ये

  – Annette Wilke The ritual tradition which I am going to discuss – namely the Paraśurāma Kalpasūtra (PKS), a ritual handbook which was probably

    śālihotra, the great veterinarian and the son of sage Hayaghoṣa, in his monumental work śālihotra saṃhitā, describes the worship of the now forgotten

  – Mahamahopadhyaya Sri Gopinath Kaviraj In the Tāntrika literature, the Mahāvidyās are usually enumerated as ten. But the number is sometimes increased by three

    दृष्ट्वा देवं महाकालं कालिकाङ्गं महाप्रभुम् | भार्गवः पतितो भूमौ दण्डवत्सुरपूजिते || भार्गव उवाच कल्यन्तकालाग्निसमानभासं चतुर्भुजं कालिकयोपजुष्टम् | कपलखट्वाङ्गवराभयाढ्य- करं महाकालमनन्तमीडे || नमः परमरूपाय