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The Serpent Power: Being Theshat-Chakra-Nirupana and Paduka-Panchaka Two Works of Laya Yoga, Translated from the Sanskrit, with Introduction and Commentary
by Arthur Avalon
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EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Ganesh & Co, Madras, India, 1953. 508 pgs. Xvi, 508 pgs. Text in English and Sanskrit. 5th Enlarged Edition. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This work is a description and explanation in fuller detail of the Serpent Power (Kundali Shakti) , and the Yoga effected through it, a subject occupying a pre-eminent place in the Tantra Shastra. It consists of a translation of two Sanskrit works published some years ago in t h e second volume of my series of Tantrik Texts, but hitherto untranslated. The first, entitled " Shatchakranirupana " ("Description of and Investigation into the Six Bodily Centres") , has as its author the celebrated Tantrik Purnananda Svami, a short note on whose life is given later. It forms t h e sixth chapter of his extensive and unpublished work on Tantrik Ritual entitled " Shritattvachintamani " . EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- The Serpent Power: Being Theshat-Chakra-Nirupana and Paduka-Panchaka Two Works of Laya Yoga, Translated from the Sanskrit, with Introduction and Commentary
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- Arthur Avalon
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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