Principles of Tantra, Parts I and II Motilal Banarsidass - The Period of the

- The Period of the Early Spread of the Doctrine

departed in a few particulars from the system on which Sanskrit scholars are now almost unanimously agreed

arsonists of villages and forests

the Siva-sutra-vrtti by some anonymous author in prose

7 The karma of the yogin is neither white nor black

Principles of Tantra, Parts I and II Motilal Banarsidass - The Period of theThe present work is a defence of the Tantra, of which Sastra the author is an adherent and a polemic, undertaken in the interests of Hindu orthodoxy in its Sakta and Tantrika form against secularism on the one hand, and on the other the religious eclecticism and various reforming movements, of which, when the book was first written, the Brahmasamaj was a leading type. In fact, in parts, the book reads like an orthodox Catholic protest against