There are nine supreme mantras of Srī Sudarśana, the cakrarāja of śrīmannārāyaṇa. It is said that through the vyūha of Sudarśana that we

  Khagendramaṇidarpaṇa is a medieval work in Kannada on Viṣaśāstra (Toxicology), dealing with various kinds of poisons and their treatment. The author of this work

    अन्तरालीनतत्त्वौघं चिदानन्दघनं महत् | यत्तत्वं शैवधामाख्यं तदोमित्यभिधीयते || तादृगात्मपरामर्शशालिनी शक्तिरस्य या | देशकालपरिच्छिन्ना सा जुं शब्देन कथ्यते || सिसृक्षोल्लेखनिर्माणशक्तित्रितयनिर्भरा | जगतो योषिता शक्तिः

  Though Srī Shaṅkara Bhagavatpāda is mostly credited with the intellectual end of Buddhism in India, whose physical end was affected by the Mohammedans, he

  श्रीहंसी: मनीषिन्‌! कीदृग्विध आम्नायमन्त्रभेदः? प्रकाश्यतां परमकृपया किं कार्यम्‌ । श्रीहंसः: मनीषिणि! मा शङ्कस्व, शृणु सावधानेन आम्नायानुलक्षणं वर्णयामः । प्रमदे! मन्त्रास्त्रिविधा, आम्नायोदिताः स्मृतिसूचिताः पुराणप्रदर्शिताश्चेति ।

    अनभ्यर्च्य गणेशानं त्रिपुरेण सदाशिवः | प्रारभच्चैव संग्रामं विघ्नेन पीडितश्शिवः || पराजयं तु संप्राप नारदेनैव बोधितः | द्वादशाब्दं तपश्चक्रे ध्यात्वा देवं गणेश्वरम् || हृदिस्थं

    वामाङ्कन्यस्तकान्तां कुचतटविलसत् मौक्तिकोद्दामहारां वामेनालिङ्ग्य दोष्णा चिबुककृतमुखं योनिदेशे च शुण्डाम् | कृत्वा मत्तेभलीलं करतलविलसत्पानपात्राङ्कुशादिं वन्दे स्वर्णाभिधानं गणपतिममलं वल्लभोच्छिष्टदेवम् || श्वेतार्कमूलसञ्जातमूर्त्यां पूजनतोषितः | उच्छिष्टगणपो मह्यं

    – P Roy After the death of the Buddha, many ideas and beliefs of Hinduism were being modified by Buddhism outside the Buddhist

   Sri Kamalakara Mishra The philosophic position of a system has its bearing on the religious side. The philosophic difference between the Advaitin and the

    नानाभा हेमवस्त्रा नररुधिरवसामांसनिर्भिन्नवक्त्रा शूलं कुन्तं रथाङ्गं फणिमुसलगदातोमरं पट्टिशं च | पाशं शक्तिं च शङ्खध्वजहलदहनान् वज्रखेटं कराब्जैः बिभ्राणा भीमवेषा विजयति गगने विश्रुता भद्रकाली ||

    – Mahāmahōpādhyāya Srī Gopinath Kaviraj The Mahākāla Saṁhitā states that the best way of propitiating Shivā is to worship Kumārī (virgin) and to

    – M M Balajinnatha Pandita Kashmir Shaivism recognizes several systems of practice resulting in the liberation of a being. The Shaiva āgamas count

    Worship of any Mahāvidyā is incomplete without the propitiation of Vaṭuka: the Bhairava in the form of a brahmacārin youth. It is stated

   Bibhuti Baruah According to several scholars, Tantra was in foreign origin. H P Shastri believed that Tantra came from outside India. Most probably it came

  It is sometimes pointed out that the Brahman of Kashmir Shaivism (or Paramaśiva as it is referred to there) is not all that different