References for Sarabha

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Namaste,

 

, S Sangaranarayanan <sangarsai

wrote:

>I am updating my publication on Prathyinkira vidhanam, vanadhurga

>vidhanam, sarabha kalpam and if any one can help me get more

>information it will be included in the publication and acknowledged.

 

I am not sure what existing material you have on sarabha but a work

titled sharabha tantra is available from Pitambara Pith in Datiya MP.

It has a few things which one doesnt usually find in publications on

sarabha in the South. Perhaps this can be referred to.

It can be procured through Jaya Lakshmi Indological Book house in

Chennai

 

This text in turn refers to some text called sarabhArchana kalpadruma

(or something similar).

My friend sent me the following note sometime back on a siddhAnta

work by name dadhIchi saMhita:Procuring a copy of this might also

help.

 

" There is siddhAnta tantra followed by the shaiva atharva-vedins,

especially those associated with the tradition of varmashiva, named

the dadhIchi saMhitA. My study suggests that this is one of the

primary tantra-s concerning the worship of the sharabha class of

vibhava-s of shiva. Unlike certain other texts of the AkAsha-bhairava

and shUlinI tradition that actually spell out the mantras, this is

entirely in mantrashAstra code and discusses certain technical

rahasya-s of sharabhAchara. The surviving manuscripts of the dadhIchi

saMhitA that I have seen might have some potentially later insertions

but the core definitely comprises a classical siddhAnta tantra.

 

It has: 1) sharAbhAvatAra stuti 2) AkAsha-bhairava mantra 3)

pAshupatAstra 4)sharabha mantra 5) sharabha sAluva kavacha 6)

sharabha kavacha mantra

 

The potential inserted sections are: pa~nchamukha gaNapati mantra and

bhuvaneshvarI nyAsa. "

 

regards

sa