Dāmodara Bhaṭṭa
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Dāmodara Bhaṭṭa was a Sanskrit scholar and author of the Yantra-cintāmaṇi, also called the Kalpa-cintāmaṇi, 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
- ↑ 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);
