[INDOLOGY] meru tantra

Sun Jul 3 13:46:25 UTC 2016

A transcription of the Merutantra is available at the Muktabodha online
library.

link:
http://muktalib5.org/DL_CATALOG/DL_CATALOG_USER_INTERFACE/dl_user_interface_display_catalog_record.php?M00195

Metadata:

Catalog number : M00195
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Uniform title: merutantra
Main title: merutantra with ṭippani
Commentator : raghunāthaśāstri
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Notes:
Data-entered by the staff of Muktabodha under the supervision of Mark S.G.
Dyczkowski.

Revision 0: October 21, 2009
Revision 1: February 11, 2010 - chapters 21-23 added
Revision 2: April 5, 2010 - chapters 24-end added.
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Publisher : śrīvenkateśvara
Publication year : 1908
Publication city : Bombay
Publication country : India
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On 3 July 2016 at 14:09, Lubomir Ondracka <ondracka at ff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> Dear Patrick,
>
> for basic information about this text, see Goudriaan - Gupta: Hindu
> Tantric nad Śākta Literature, p. 98 and Kavirāj: Tāntrik sāhitya, pp. 528-9.
>
> Regarding the date, Goudriaan - Gupta are inconclusive (Although it has
> more than once been regarded as a late work because the town of London is
> said to be mentioned in it, it
> is possible that at least its core goes further back), as is Alexis
> Sanderson (the Merutantra, a work composed or at least completed in its
> present form after the arrival of the British in India).
>
> There is a couple of editions (the latest one is probably this one:
> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/917764869), but I am afraid there is no
> searchable text available.
>
> Best,
> Lubomir
>
>
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 21:27:37 +1000
> patrick mccartney <psdmccartney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > Does anyone have or know where I could find a copy of the meru tantra? I
> > know nothing about this text. When was it composed? I have looked on
> > gretil, muktabodha, archive, google,wikipedia, but no luck.
> >
> > The searchable archives on Indology came up with not much:
> >
> http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2004-September/028666.html
> > apart from a suggestion it was written in the 8th century.
> >
> >
> > I would like a searchable document ideally.
> > An organisation I am studying at the moment keeps referring to it for the
> > definition of a 'Hindu'.
> >
> >
> > From their website:
> >
> > The Holy text the *Merutantra *defines the word Hindu (हिंदु) as हीनानि
> > गुणानि दूषयति इति हिंदु । (*hinaani gunaani dushyati iti Hindu*)'.
> ‘हीनानि
> > गुणानि दूषयति’  means that which destroys (*dushyati*) the base and
> > inferior (*hin*)* Raja *and *Tama* components (*gun*). Thus Hinduism is
> an
> > attitude. It means being a seeker. If one is a seeker enriched with the
> > *Sattva* component which destroys the *Raja* and *Tama* components then
> one
> > is certainly a Hindu. By this definition, a seeker belonging to any
> > religion, can be considered a Hindu. Hence the Hindu religion, in a real
> > sense, views all religions with equality.
> >
> > http://forumforhinduawakening.org/understanding/synonyms-dharma
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Patrick McCartney, PhD
> > School of Culture, History & Language
> > College of the Asia-Pacific
> > The Australian National University
> > Canberra, Australia, 0200
> >
> >
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