Dāmodara Bhaṭṭa

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Dāmodara Bhaṭṭa was a Sanskrit scholar and author of the Yantracintmaṇi, also called the Kalpacintāmaṇi, a text that deals with the use of yantras^[1] in the performance of magical rites (abhicāra).^[2]^[3] He lived in north India during the second half of the sixteenth century.

References[edit]

↑ Gudrun Bühnemann, Mantras and Yantras in the Hindu Traditions (Leiden: Brill, 2003): 35
↑ Jean Marquès-Rivière, Rituel de magie tantrique hindoue : Yantra Chintâmani, le joyau des Yantras, traduit en français et précédé d'une "Etude sur le Tantrisme," (Paris : Librairie Véga, 1939).
↑ Hans-Georg Türstig, Yantracintāmaṇiḥ of Dāmodara (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1988);

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[1] Gudrun Bühnemann, Mantras and Yantras in the Hindu Traditions (Leiden: Brill, 2003): 35

[2] Jean Marquès-Rivière, Rituel de magie tantrique hindoue : Yantra Chintâmani, le joyau des Yantras, traduit en français et précédé d'une "Etude sur le Tantrisme," (Paris : Librairie Véga, 1939).

[3] Hans-Georg Türstig, Yantracintāmaṇiḥ of Dāmodara (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1988);

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