You may wish to refer to p. 42 of Rosane Rocher and Ludo Rocher, The Making of Western Indology: Henty Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company (Routledge, 2012).   

Best wishes,
Rosane Rocher

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Subject: [INDOLOGY] Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:23:30 -0500
From: Laura Harrington <lharring@BU.EDU>
Reply-To: Laura Harrington <lharring@BU.EDU>
To: INDOLOGY@liverpool.ac.uk


I am trying to track down a text that is alluded to in a late eighteenth century essay by Henry Colebrooke as the “Garland of Classes” (Jaatimaala). It is, in his words, a chapter of Rudra-yaamala-tantra. 

It is not clear from what Rudra-yaamala-tantra Colebrooke owned; a work by that name does not appear in his extant collection of manuscripts. Current scholarly consensus on the Rudra-yaamala-tantra suggests that, though routinely cited as an important text in the Kaula Tantric tradition, the “original” text is lost. There is a version of a text with the same name has been published in a Sanskrit edition by the Vacasampati Press, Calcutta. However, it does not contain a Jaatimaala chapter.

Can anybody shed light on the nature or whereabouts of this elusive chapter?


Many thanks

Laura Harrington