{"product_id":"prapanchasara-tantra-ebook","title":"Prapanchasara Tantra – The Tantric Compendium of Adi Shankaracharya (Ebook Bundle: Sanskrit Text \u0026 Hindi Study, English \u0026 Hindi)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003ch5 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDigital Ebook (PDF) — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Complete \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrapanchasara \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollection: Arthur \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvalon's Classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSanskrit Edition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Tantrik Texts, with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish Introduction) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u0026amp; Dr. Ramchandra \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePuri's Two-Volume \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHindi Study \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Shankaracharya: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTantrik Sadhana'\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eTexts \/ Tradition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eŚrī Prapañcasāra \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTantram (celebrated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etantric compendium \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eattributed to Adi \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShankaracharya) | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSanskrit edition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Parts I \u0026amp; II) edited \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Arthur Avalon (Sir \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Woodroffe), with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish introduction \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Tantrik Texts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeries Vols. XVIII \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eXIX, Agamanusandhana \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSamiti, Calcutta | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHindi study \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Prapanchasaratantre \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShankaracharya: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTantrik Sadhana' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Vols. 1 \u0026amp; 2) by Dr. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRamchandra Puri — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVrajajivan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrachyabharati \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGranthamala 141\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Prapanchasara Tantra is one of the most celebrated and authoritative compendiums of the entire tantric tradition, generally attributed to the great philosopher and sage Adi Shankaracharya. Its very name reveals its scope: prapancha is the extended universe composed of the five great elements (mahabhuta) — ether, air, fire, water, and earth — so that the title means \"the essence, or the account, of the manifest cosmos.\" This special collection brings together the classic Sanskrit edition prepared by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) with his masterly English introduction, alongside Dr. Ramchandra Puri's rich two-volume Hindi study of the text, offering the reader both the primary scripture and its modern exposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAvalon's edition — first issued in the renowned Tantrik Texts series and here presented in both its parts, covering the full sweep of the work's thirty-six chapters — was praised in its own time as a landmark of tantric scholarship, elucidating some of the abstrusest mysticism and obscurities of Tantrik literature with terse and lucid explanation. His edition preserves the Sanskrit text together with the traditional commentary of Padmapada and a further gloss, making it the standard reference for serious students of the tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Prapanchasara ranges across the entire landscape of Tantra. It opens with the deepest questions of cosmology and philosophy — the two principles of Purusha and Prakriti, the twenty-five tattvas, and the evolution of the manifest world from Bindu through Nada into gross form. It then unfolds the profound science of sound and speech (the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet arranged under Soma, Surya, and Agni), the mysteries of Kundalini and her seed-mantra hrīṃ, the rites of initiation and homa, and the worship of a great host of deities — Sarasvati, Sri Tripura, Bhuvaneshvari, Lakshmi, Durga, Agni, Ganesha, Krishna, and the Pranava (Om) — together with the disciplines of yoga. As an authoritative source, it is cited by later masters such as Raghava Bhatta and Kalicharana, and it forms the foundation on which texts like the Sharadatilaka Tantra were built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDr. Ramchandra Puri's companion volumes open this vast scripture to the Hindi reader, exploring the tantric sadhana of the Prapanchasara tradition and its place within the legacy of Shankaracharya. Together, the Sanskrit source with English introduction and the two-volume Hindi study make this collection an unusually complete resource on one of Tantra's foundational works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEbook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: PDF (digital download)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTexts Included: Prapanchasara Tantra — Sanskrit edition Parts I \u0026amp; II by Arthur Avalon (Tantrik Texts Vols. XVIII \u0026amp; XIX, with English introduction and traditional commentary); and 'Shankaracharya: Tantrik Sadhana' Vols. 1 \u0026amp; 2, a Hindi study by Dr. Ramchandra Puri\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: Sanskrit text with English introduction, and Hindi study\/exposition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContent: Complete Sanskrit verses with commentary and scholarly introduction, plus a two-volume Hindi study, faithfully reproduced from the printed editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeal For: Students and practitioners of Tantra, Sri Vidya, and mantra shastra, admirers of Adi Shankaracharya, readers of Arthur Avalon \/ John Woodroffe, scholars of Sanskrit tantric literature, and collectors of foundational tantric scriptures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhy You'll Love It\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA complete Prapanchasara library in a single download — pairing Arthur Avalon's classic Sanskrit edition and English introduction with Dr. Ramchandra Puri's two-volume Hindi study — bringing the great tantric compendium of Adi Shankaracharya, its cosmology, its science of mantra, and its worship of the deities, to both English and Hindi readers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOrder Now\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBring home the Prapanchasara Tantra, the celebrated tantric compendium of Adi Shankaracharya, in this special ebook bundle pairing Arthur Avalon's Sanskrit edition with a two-volume Hindi study, available exclusively at The Soma Store. 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