Subject: | [INDOLOGY] Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra |
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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