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
Tantra (; ) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the India, Indian subcontinent beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE, first within Shaivism and later in Buddhism.
The term ''tantra'', in the Greater India, Indian tr ...
, wrote the famous book ''Brihat Tantrasara'' based on 170 Tantra Sadhana texts. This famous work of him is appreciated all over the country.
Krishnananda was liberal, he had no bigotry about
religion
Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...
. Therefore, Tantrasara texts have been inserted by taking the essence of Tantra texts of
Shaiva
Shaivism (, , ) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the supreme being. It is the second-largest Hindu sect after Vaishnavism, constituting about 385 million Hindus, found widely across South Asia (predominantly in ...
,
Ganapathi,
Shakta
Shaktism () is a major Hindu denomination in which the deity or metaphysical reality is considered metaphorically to be a woman.
Shaktism involves a galaxy of goddesses, all regarded as different aspects, manifestations, or personificatio ...
,
Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism () ), also called Vishnuism, is one of the major Hindu denominations, Hindu traditions, that considers Vishnu as the sole Para Brahman, supreme being leading all other Hindu deities, that is, ''Mahavishnu''. It is one of the majo ...
and Solar community.
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Hindu tantric texts
Shaktism
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