Guest guest Posted August 28, 2001 Report Share Posted August 28, 2001 In our list, Sri Ganesh Prasad is very knowledgeable on tantra shastra and has also mastered large portions of rig and atharva vedas. Probably, he can shed more light on this matter. Ravi , sunderh@h... wrote: > Namaste, > > I found these references only. Wondered if other members > have > come across more details. > > > > http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/chak.htm > > Antiquity of Tantricism > By Chintaharan Chakravarti > The Indian Historical Quarterly > Vol. VI, No.1 March, 1930 pp. 114-126 > > The general view is that the Tantras originated from the > Saubhagya-kanda of the Atharva-Veda. Some of the Tantra works are > found to record this in definite terms. The Kalikularnava Tantra has > got two lines in the beginning stating "Now Devi says in the Atharvana > Samhita."(4) This in fact identifies this work as an > Atharvana-samhita, thus clearly hinting at the close connection of > the Atharvaveda with this Tantra. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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