Brihat Tantrasara
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Author | Krishnananda Agambagish Editor: Rasik Mohon Chattapadhhayay |
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Translator | Sri Chandra Kumar Tarkalankara |
Language | Bengali |
Subject | Bengali Shaktism, Kali puja |
Genre | Tantra |
Publisher | Nababharat Publishers |
Publication date | Falgun, 1285 Bangabda |
Publication place | India |
Media type | Printed texts |
Pages | 771 |
Brihat Tantrasara or Tantrasara is a famous work on the social worship system of the various goddesses of the Dasamahavidya mentioned in various texts of Tantra Sadhana. Krishnananda Agambagish, a well-versed Tantric devotee of Tantra, wrote the famous book Brihat Tantrasara based on 170 Tantra Sadhana texts.[1] This famous work of him is appreciated all over the country.[2] Krishnananda was liberal, he had no bigotry about religion. Therefore, Tantrasara texts have been inserted by taking the essence of Tantra texts of Shaiva, Ganapathi, Shakta, Vaishnavism and Solar community.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Harding, Elizabeth U. (1998). Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 217. ISBN 978-81-208-1450-9.
- ^ Samājadāra, Maṇīndranātha (1987). Saṃskr̥ta-Prākr̥ta-Abahaṭṭha sāhityera itibr̥tta (in Bengali). Bāṃlā Ekāḍemī. p. 70.
- ^ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, দেবাশিস. "কৃষ্ণানন্দকে সামনে দেখে জিভ কাটলেন কৃষ্ণাঙ্গী বধূ - Anandabazar". anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2020-12-02.
Additional reading
[edit]- Agambagish, Krishnananda (1932). Chattapadhhayay, Rashik Mohun (ed.). Brihat Tantrasar. Kolkata: Nababharat Publishers.