mantra mahodadhi english translation pdf

They have filled a lacuna that was keenly felt. The board of Scholars who have completed this arduous undertaking have done a fine job, and richly deserve our praise.

aduraG dna alapoG ,ahmisaraN ,unsiV fo sartnaM ehT. erutaretil artnaT eht ot noitidda a eb lliw dna ,noitacilbup lufesu yrev a si tI. All the 3,300 verses of this work (completed in 1589 A.D.) have been literally rendered into easy English with the help of the author's own commentary called Nauka. neeb evah anaraM dna anataccU ,aseeD ,anahbmatS ,aysaV ,itnaS setir fo sepyt xis ehT. Sri Satguru Publication of Delhi have therefore to be congratulated work available for making this monumental work available to the English- Knowing folk. Exceedingly valuable for the spiritual practitioners and extremely popular among them in the North as well as in the South, there was till now no translation of this work into English. His treatises include the Mantramahodadhi ('great ocean of mantras') of ca. This is the most important collection on tantric mantras and ritualistics in general, compiled by the ascetic and scholar Mahidhara who lived in Varanasi in 1589. This correspondence is the theme of this work. Mantra Mahodadhi English Translation Pdf Mahdhara ('earth-bearing') was a 16th-century commentator of the Vedas. Today, this book came from India a translation into English of Mantra Mahodadhi (The Great Ocean of Mantras). There is thus a correspondence between the mantra (formulation), murti (Visulization), and the tantra (actualization). Indeed the mantras are the 'body' of the gods.

Now in Tantrik sadhana, the mantras are of great significance, for they are sufficient means of visualizing the gods. It is encyclopaedic in nature it is verlly an ocean (as the title suggests) of mantras. The author, who describes himself as an anchorite who did austerity in Varanasi, prepared this book in twenty -five 'Tarangas' more as a compilation of relevant material for the sadhakas than as an independent work. Among the medieval works on Tantra, this work in Sanskrit holds a place of great importance for its comprehension and authority.

Mantra mahodadhi english translation pdf