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55
Devātamurti Prakarana, Sloka 81.
D.R.Rajeswari, Sakti Iconography, New Delhi, 1989, p.25.
Ibid, p.26.
Ibid.
Hemadri, 1/725 ; 2/47. Mānsara 24/51-52, Indumati Mishra, Pratimāvigyan (Vaisnava Puran Ke Adhar Par), p.70. Balaram Srivastav (ed.), Sri Tatvanidhi, pp. 96-98.
N.K.Bhattasali, Iconography of Buddhist and Bramanical Sculptures in the Dacca Museum, Dacca, 1929, p.139.
30.
Sāradātilaka tantra, p.368, Sloka 37. Ibid, Ch.VI, Verses 34-36 and 113-123.
31.
A.Avalon (ed.), Prapanchasara Tantra, Tantra texts, Vol.III, p.48, Sloka 3.
Ibid, Astama Patala,
Sloka 29.
Ibid, p.60, Sloka 53-54.
35.
Bhattasali, op.cit, p.189.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Panchanan Tarakaratana, (ed.), Tantrasāra, p.198, Sloka 14.
38.
Ibid, p.201, Sloka 25.
39
K.K. Roy (ed.), Purătatva Visesanka, Uttar Pradesa, p.59.
40.
The same form is also found in Mahabharata, Bhisama Parvan, Adhyaya XXIII. The Hindu Mahāsarasavat is known to be a variant of the Goddess Durgā or Bhadrakali. Venkatesvara (ed.), Durgāsaptasati, 1916, p.283, Verse 14-15.
Silparatna, Ch.XXIV, Verse 4.
41. 42.
Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrasāstra (Being the Introduction to Sri Bhairava Padmavati Kalpa, Ahamedabad), 1944, p.294.
