05-04-2007, 08:10 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Ashok Kumar+May 4 2007, 01:02 AM-->QUOTE(Ashok Kumar @ May 4 2007, 01:02 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Hauma Hamiddha+May 4 2007, 04:41 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Hauma Hamiddha @ May 4 2007, 04:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->As per the tantra-s women and 4th varNas might receive a tAntric dIkSha of upanayana which makes them eligible perform the rites prescribed in those texts. We have statues and vIrakal-s in south India where there are women shown wearing the upavIta- so at some point this happened in the south. One of these statues is of a great tantric female guru seen in Karnataka not far from where I was born.
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Many great tantras have such gems! Unfortunately many so called tantras are filled with horrors too. It seems at some point some people with a penchant for black-magic wrote a bunch of texts and tried to buy respectability by giving them the form of tantra Agama, i.e. in the form of a dialog between shiva and shakti.
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This will also have salutary effects on creating a proper "hindu narrative".
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This reminds me, is it also true that Mahabharat originally also had only 25,000 verses and 65,000 or 75,000 verses were added to it later?
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Many great tantras have such gems! Unfortunately many so called tantras are filled with horrors too. It seems at some point some people with a penchant for black-magic wrote a bunch of texts and tried to buy respectability by giving them the form of tantra Agama, i.e. in the form of a dialog between shiva and shakti.
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This will also have salutary effects on creating a proper "hindu narrative".
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This reminds me, is it also true that Mahabharat originally also had only 25,000 verses and 65,000 or 75,000 verses were added to it later?