Devi Mahatmya
The Devi Mahatmya, embedded in the Markandeya Purana, is a foundational celebration of Devi's supreme power through the Madhu-Kaitabha, Mahishasura, and Shumbha-Nishumbha cycles. It is Puranic rather than a manual for every later Tantric practice.
- Reference access: GRETIL Markandeya Purana text, chapters 81–93 in standard enumeration.
- Use: broad Devi theology and devotional context.
Devi Bhagavata and Devi Gita traditions
These sources develop Devi-centred cosmology, devotion, knowledge, and liberation. Editions and chapter numbering should be verified before making verse-specific claims.
Lalita literature
The Lalita Sahasranama, Lalitopakhyana, and related Sri Vidya materials are principal reference points for Lalita Tripurasundari, her names, theology, and Sri Chakra world. Public availability of a text does not remove practice restrictions stated within traditions.
- Reference access: Sanskrit Documents Lalita corpus and established print editions.
- Use: names, theology, symbolism, and source orientation—not unsupervised ritual procedure.
Kularnava Tantra
The Kularnava Tantra is an important Kaula-Shakta source repeatedly concerned with guru, initiation, qualification, conduct, and liberation. It supports this site's emphasis on coherent transmission, while not representing every Shakta lineage.
- Reference access: Institut Français de Pondichéry and Muktabodha manuscript/digital collections.
- Use: discipline, qualification, transmission, and Kaula context.
Documented Tantric corpora
Muktabodha and GRETIL preserve searchable or catalogued Sanskrit texts including major Shaiva and Tantric works such as the Tantraloka. These are valuable research access points; an individual e-text still requires philological care and contextual interpretation.
Editorial rule
The site paraphrases rather than publishing ritual passages. A future teacher or organisation must add its own verified lineage references and reviewer. Where traditions disagree, the content says so instead of declaring one interpretation universally scriptural.