South In-dian languages are certainly no exception: from the library catalogues we know of versions of the Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana accompanied by annotations – rather than full-fledged commentaries – in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil. Hereaf-ter, I will focus on the latter category,...
One should remember that Krama and Tripura¯ cults have always been closely connected through their scriptural traditions.19 The connections between Krama and S´ r¯ıvidya¯ receive additional meaning in Kerala, where the Pit.a¯rar and Mu¯ ssats20 combine mantras and ritualistic ...
19 The connections between Krama and Śrīvidyā receive additional meaning in Kerala, where the Piṭārar and Mūssats20 combine mantras and ritualistic practices of both systems. The worship of sequences (krama) of the Kālīs was evident in the earliest strata of their ritualism, but the...