The Sakta Pithas

Delhi, Varanasi, Patna (India): Motilal Banarsidass, 1973. Second revised edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 132; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The holy places, associated with the Mother Goddess and spread over various parts of the Indian sub-continent, have been popular pilgrim spots for a long time. According to some late Tantric texts ascribable to Eastern India, the number of such Śākta-tirthas is fifty-one, and the present monograph is a dissertation on the origin and development of this conception. Thus it is, at the same time, the study of a number of Tantric and other texts as well as of certain problems of Tantric religion and of historical geography. It is unique in its approach because Tantra studies have not progressed satisfactorily so far on scientific lines. The present monograph has been regarded by a competent authority as 'a model of accurate and penetrating investigation' which has brought honour to its author" (jacket blurb). (Inventory #: 69991)