Brihat Tantrasara

Brihat Tantrasara

Author	Krishnananda Agambagish Editor: Rasik Mohon Chattapadhhayay
Translator	Sri Chandra Kumar Tarkalankara
Language	Bengali
Subject	Bengali Shaktism, Kali puja
Genre	Tantra
Publisher	Nababharat Publishers
Publication date	Falgun, 1285 Bangabda
Publication place	India
Media type	Printed texts
Pages	771

Brihat Tantrasara or Tantrasara is a famous work on the social worship system of the various goddesses of the Dasamahavidya mentioned in various texts of Tantra Sadhana. Krishnananda Agambagish, a well-versed Tantric devotee of Tantra, wrote the famous book Brihat Tantrasara based on 170 Tantra Sadhana texts. ^[1] This famous work of him is appreciated all over the country. ^[2] Krishnananda was liberal, he had no bigotry about religion. Therefore, Tantrasara texts have been inserted by taking the essence of Tantra texts of Shaiva, Ganapathi, Shakta, Vaishnavism and Solar community. ^[3]

References

1. Harding, Elizabeth U. (1998). Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 217. ISBN   978-81-208-1450-9.
2. Samājadāra, Maṇīndranātha (1987). Saṃskr̥ta-Prākr̥ta-Abahaṭṭha sāhityera itibr̥tta (in Bengali). Bāṃlā Ekāḍemī. p. 70.
3. বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, দেবাশিস. "কৃষ্ণানন্দকে সামনে দেখে জিভ কাটলেন কৃষ্ণাঙ্গী বধূ - Anandabazar". anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2020-12-02.

Additional reading

• Agambagish, Krishnananda (1932). Chattapadhhayay, Rashik Mohun (ed.). Brihat Tantrasar. Kolkata: Nababharat Publishers.