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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Studying Goddess-Centered Hindu Tantrism: Take Srividya, for example | |
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| Reading Auspicious Wisdom | |
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| Srividya Tradition and Texts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Identifying Srividya in Sakta Tantrism | |
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| Srividya and Smarta Brahmanism | |
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| Orthodoxy and Orthopraxies in Srividya | |
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| Kula Tantrism and Srividya Tradition | |
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| Oral and Written Tantric Tradition and the Development of Tantric Canons | |
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| Srividya: Goddess Worship in the Srikula Tantras | |
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| Srividya within and beyond Kula Tantrism | |
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| Earliest Historical Evidence for Srividya in Tamil Literature | |
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| Srividya in Text and History | |
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| Determining Srividya Sources in South Indian Tradition | |
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| The Srikula Trantras and Other Early Sources | |
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| Gaudapada, Sankara, and the Sankara Tradition | |
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| Ritual Source Books, Treatises, and Later Tradition | |
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| Regional and Vernacular Sources of Srividya and Further Remarks on the Concept of Authority and Scripture | |
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| The Goddess Lalita Mahatripurasundari: The Sthula Aspect | |
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| Lalita the Great Goddess | |
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| The Making of a Great Goddess | |
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| Lalita Tripurasundari and Her Subordinates | |
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| The Iconographic and Mythic Lalita in South Indian Temples | |
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| The Esoteric Interpretation of Lalita's Image and Mythology | |
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| The Srividya Mantra: srividya | |
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| The Subtle Aspect of Devi | |
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| Interpreting the Canon of Signs | |
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| Mythical and Historical Derivation of the srividya | |
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| Kamesvara and Lopamudra: kadi and hadi vidyas | |
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| The srividya, Sakta speculations, and Triadic symbolism | |
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| The srividya, Vedic gayatri, and Vedic traditions | |
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| Esoteric Meanings of the srividya | |
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| The srividya Appended to other Mantras | |
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| Tripura Upanisad, Hadi, and Kadi Vidya | |
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| Sodasaksari: The Sixteen Syllable Form of the srividya | |
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| The Meaning of the Vidya, Initiation, and other Mantras | |
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| Secrecy and the Articulation of the Mantra | |
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| Sricakara: The Transcendent Aspect of Devi | |
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| Introductory Remarks | |
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| Sricakra: Creation as the Form of God | |
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| The Sricakra Deities | |
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| Interpreting Tantric Ritual | |
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| Introduction: Why Theorize about Srividya Ritual? | |
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| The Vaidika Tantric: Acquiring Power by Exploiting Incongruity | |
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| The Fivefold Structure of Srividya Ritual | |
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| Tantric Scholarship and Modes of Comparison | |
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| Tantric and Non-Tantric Worlds of Convergence and Disjuncture | |
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| Convergent and Utopic Maps of the World | |
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| Ritual Strategies and Objectives | |
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| Beyond Tantric and Vedic Ritual Ideologies: The Religious Virtuosi | |
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| Appendix of Diagrams | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |