Digital Ebook (PDF) - The Sanskrit Text with the 'Shankar' Hindi Vyakhya (Bhasha Tika)
Text / Tradition: Composed by Sri Purnananda Giri Parivrajaka Paramahamsa | 'Shankar' Hindi commentary (Bhasha Tika) by Pandit Harishankar Shastri, Vidyaratna, Vidyanidhi | Chaukhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi (Haridas Sanskrit Granthamala 335)
Key Features
The Shyamarahasya Tantram — the "Secret Doctrine of Shyama" — is one of the most comprehensive and revered scriptures devoted to the worship of Devi Shyama Kali, the dark and compassionate Mother. Composed by the illustrious renunciate Sri Purnananda Giri Parivrajaka Paramahamsa and presented here in its Sanskrit text with the lucid 'Shankar' Hindi commentary of Pandit Harishankar Shastri, this edition makes a foundational Kali scripture accessible to Sanskrit reader and Hindi reader alike. Its title page proclaims it "the essence of the sixty-four Tantras, the best of all Tantras" — a fitting claim for a work of such remarkable scope.
Shyama, whose very name means "the dark one," is among the most beloved forms of Kali — the first of the ten Mahavidyas and the personified compassion and power of the Divine Mother. As Dakshina Kalika, she is worshipped along the right-hand (dakshinachara) path, the orthodox way that offers deep spiritual growth, and this Tantra preserves the complete ritual and meditative technology of her sadhana.
Organized into numerous chapters (parichchhedas), the scripture unfolds the worship of Devi Kalika in extraordinary detail. It opens with the determination of her mantras, the greatness of the Kali form, and the scriptural authority for her worship, moving through the selection of the guru and guru-dhyana, the tantric sandhya, the mudras such as the ankusha and dhenu mudra, the goddess's own Gayatri, the methods of asana, nyasa, and puja, and the secret glory of Vijaya. Further chapters expound the pitha-nyasa and the kamakala, the making of the yantra and the mode of its worship, the dhyana of the Devi, the purification rites, the offering of flowers, the eulogy of the guru-lineage, the recitation of the many names of Bhairava, the Kalika Sahasranama and Kavacha, the purashcharana and the awakening of Shakti, the disciplines of achara and Shiva-bali, the attainment of mantra-siddhi (mantra-siddhi), the kamya (desire-fulfilling) applications, and the worship of Mahishamardini and Jayadurga — together with the profound and secret teachings on the paths of advanced sadhana.
A complete and authoritative manual of Kali worship in the Shakta-Tantric tradition, the Shyamarahasya Tantram is an indispensable text for the devotee of the Mother, the serious sadhaka, and the scholar of Tantra — a treasury of the secret knowledge of Shyama gathered into a single volume.
Ebook Details
- Format: PDF (digital download)
- Language: Sanskrit text with Hindi commentary
- Author: Sri Purnananda Giri Parivrajaka Paramahamsa
- Commentary: 'Shankar' Hindi Vyakhya (Bhasha Tika) by Pandit Harishankar Shastri, Vidyaratna, Vidyanidhi
- Publisher: Chaukhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi (Haridas Sanskrit Granthamala 335)
- Content: Complete Sanskrit verses with detailed Hindi exposition, faithfully reproduced from the classic printed edition
- Ideal For: Devotees and sadhakas of Kali and the Mahavidyas, practitioners of Shakta and Dakshinachara Tantra, scholars of Sanskrit tantric literature, and collectors of rare Devi scriptures
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A complete and authoritative Kali scripture in a single download — the Sanskrit Shyamarahasya Tantram with its detailed Hindi commentary, hailed as the essence of the sixty-four Tantras, preserving the full secret tradition of the worship of Devi Shyama Kali for devotee and scholar alike.
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