Digital Ebook (PDF) — The Sanskrit Text with Hindi Translation (Bhasha Tika)
Text / Tradition: Yoginī Tantra (Shakta / Kaula Tantra dedicated to Kali and Kamakhya) | Hindi translation (Bhasha Tika) by Pandit Kanhaiyalal Mishra of Moradabad | Published by Ganga Vishnu Shri Krishnadas, Lakshmi Venkateshwar Press, Kalyan–Bombay (1957 / Samvat 2013)
Key Features
The Yogini Tantra is one of the most important and celebrated scriptures of the Shakta tradition — a voluminous and revered Tantra dedicated to the worship of the Goddess in her forms as Kali and Kamakhya. Presented here in its Sanskrit text with the Hindi translation (Bhasha Tika) of Pandit Kanhaiyalal Mishra of Moradabad, and published by the renowned Venkateshwar Press, this edition opens one of the great scriptures of the Divine Mother to the Sanskrit and Hindi reader alike.
Composed in the land of Assam — the ancient Kamarupa, honored as the very "womb of Tantra" — the Yogini Tantra is intimately bound to the sacred hill of Nilachala and the temple of Kamakhya, the foremost seat of Shakti worship in eastern India. It is a foundational scripture of the Kaula tradition and is especially important for the vamachara, the "left-hand" path of tantric practice, preserving the secret rites, mantras, and sadhanas through which the Goddess and her attendant Yoginis are invoked. In its pages, Kamakhya is described as the very epicenter of the power of the Yoginis — the semi-divine feminine energies through whom the sincere seeker attains the siddhis, the supernatural attainments of the tantric path.
True to the classical definition of a Tantra, the scripture ranges far beyond ritual alone. As its own verses declare, a Tantra treats of creation and dissolution, the worship of deities, the sadhana and purashcharana of all mantras, the six acts (shatkarma) and the fourfold meditative yoga; and further, of the arrangement of the deities, the description of sacred places (tirthas), the duties of the ashramas, the making and determining of yantras, the origins of the gods, sacred astronomy and the Puranic narratives, the accounts of vows and observances, the mysteries of the Hara-chakra, and the whole conduct of dharma and the spiritual life. The Yogini Tantra is thus not merely a manual of worship but a vast compendium of Shakta knowledge — and, uniquely, it also preserves precious historical and geographical information about medieval Assam and its peoples.
For the devotee of Kali and Kamakhya, the practitioner of Shakta and Kaula Tantra, the pilgrim to the great Shakti Pitha of Assam, and the scholar of Sanskrit tantric literature, the Yogini Tantra is an essential and endlessly rich scripture — presented here in Sanskrit with a clear Hindi translation in a single accessible volume.
Ebook Details
- Format: PDF (digital download)
- Language: Sanskrit text with Hindi translation
- Text: Yoginī Tantra (Shakta / Kaula tradition, dedicated to Kali and Kamakhya)
- Translator: Pandit Kanhaiyalal Mishra of Moradabad (Bhasha Tika)
- Publisher: Ganga Vishnu Shri Krishnadas, Lakshmi Venkateshwar Press, Kalyan–Bombay
- Content: Complete Sanskrit verses with Hindi exposition, faithfully reproduced from the classic printed edition
- Ideal For: Devotees of Kali, Kamakhya, and the Yoginis, practitioners of Shakta and Kaula Tantra, pilgrims and admirers of the Kamakhya Pitha, and scholars of Sanskrit tantric literature and the history of Assam
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A great Shakta scripture in a single download — the Sanskrit Yogini Tantra with its clear Hindi translation, preserving the secret worship of Kali, Kamakhya, and the Yoginis from Assam, the "womb of Tantra," for the devotee of the Mother and the serious student of the tantric path.
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