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HYMN TO KALI KARPURADI-STOTRA Second Edition 1953 Printed by D. V. Syamala Rau, at the Vasanta Press. The Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras 20 HYMN TO KALI KARPURADI-STOTRA BY ARTHUR AVALON WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY By VIMALSNANDA-S'VSMI 2nd Edition Revised and enlarged PUBLISHEES : GANESH & Co., (MADRAS) Ltd., MADRAS—17 1958 PUBLISHERS* NOTE The Orientalists' system of transliteration has been followed in this work. sr a, «n a, * i, f i, 3 u, 5 n, *j r, 5£ f, ^ l, ^ i ~ m ^ e, ^ ai, aft o, ®ft au, or rh, : h. %k, ^ kh, *{ g, ^ gh, * n, *% c, ^ ch, ^ j, ^ jh, *[ fi, ^ t, $ th, f d, S dh, or n, ^ t, ^ th, ^ d, ^ dh, ^ n, ^p, <J>ph, ^b, <Tbh, ^m, \ y, \ r, 3 1, ^ v, ^ s', ^ s, ^ s, ^ h, 55 I. CONTENTS .... ..... PAGE Preface 1-42 . . Hymn to Kali 43-96 U\ . • • • .... .... .... 5Hf^TO%Tf^cP'R «*KI«ri\u| SjqtiR5«H^ m-m n«raWrarsRWR VI .... PAGE #5Rqi^f <KS$fclWP^ \\\ Appendix I ^?T*TflTfa5|iT and g^tf^t . . \M ii sWrgapr: . . . in ?iSTft?fe: . . . . v JM-tv sqn?qi%Ticram>w^qT5nH35fiq: . . —— By the same Author SHAKTI AND SHAKTA Essays and Addresses on the Shakta Tantra Shastra CONTENTS — — — Section 1. Introductory Chapters I XIII Bharata Dharma—The World as Power (Shakti)—The — — Tantras Tantra and Veda Shastras The Tantras and — — Religion of the Shaktas Shakti and Shakta Is Shakti — — — Force ? Chlnachara Tantra Shastras in China A Tibetan — — Tantra Shakti in Taoism Alleged Conflict of Shastras Sarvanandanatha. — — Section 2. Doctrinal Chapters XIV—XX — — Chit Shakti Maya Shakti Matter and Consciousness — — — Shakti and Maya Shakta Advaitavada Creation The Indian Magna Mater. Section 3.—Ritual—Chapters XXI—XXVIII — — Hindu Ritual Vedanta and Tantra The Psychology of — — — Religious Ritual Shakti as Mantra Varnamala Shakta — Sadhana or ordinary Ritual Panchatattva or Secret Ritual- Matam Rutra (The Right and Wrong Interpretation). — — — Section 4. Yoga and Conclusions Chapters XXIX XXXI — Kundalini Shakti (The Serpent Power) The Agamas and — the Future Conclusions. The Shakta Tantra is a Sadhana Shastra of Monistic (Advaitavada) Vedanta. It is a profound and powerful system and its doctrine of Shakti or Divine Power is one of the greatest evolved through spiritual intuition. " Shakti and Shakta reveals a wonderful grasp of the fundamentals of consciousness." 4th Edition (1931) Cloth bound—750 Pages. Price Rs. 25/- " A By the same uthor THE SERPENT POWER The Serpent Power is a description and explana- — tion in fuller detail of the Serpent Power Kundalini — S'akti and the yoga effected through it, a subject occupying a pre-eminent place in the Tantra Shastra. It consists of a translation of two Sanskrit works " $at- Cakra Nirvana*' (description of and investigation into the six bodily centres) and " P5duka Pancaka (Five-fold foot-stool of the Guru). To it is appended a translation from the Sanskrit commentary by Kali- charana. To the translation of both the works is added some further explanatory notes by the author. This edition contains also the Sanskrit Texts of the works here translated and nine half-tone plates taken from life showing some positions in Kundalini Yoga besides eight original coloured plates of the Cakras. The book is bound in full cloth and gilt. 5th Edition (1953) Price Rs. 25/-* PREFACE This celebrated Kaula Stotra, which is now translated from the Sanskrit for the first time, is attributed to MahSkSla Him- self. The Text used is that of the edition published at Calcutta in 1899 by the Sanskrit Press Depository, with a commentary in Sanskrit by the late Mahamahop^dhyaya Krshnanatha Nyaya-paficanana, who was both very learned in Tantra-S'astra and faithful to his Dharma. He thus refused the offer of a good Government Post made to him personally by a former Lieutenant-Governor on the ground that he would not accept money for imparting knowledge. Some variants in reading are supplied by this com- mentator. I am indebted to him for the Notes, or substance of the notes, marked K. B. To these I have added others, both in English and Sanskrit explaining matters and allusions familiar doubtless to those for whom the original was designed, but not so to the English or even ordinary Indian reader. I have also referred to the edition of the Stotra published by Gaiiesfa-Candra-Ghosa at Calcutta in 1891, with a translation in Bengali by Gurunatha VidySnidhi, and commentary by Durgarama-Siddhantavagis'a BhattScarya. I publish for the first time Vimalananda-Svamfs Commen- When tary to which I again refer later. in this Introduction or in the Commentary I have not mentioned these two works my authorities are the Tantras or TSntrik works which I cite, or the information I have gathered from those whom I have consulted.
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