0-0 SI. fe Viz ATT ABT ° moet ae eo afrengid of Rama 1 si gta afk Agana: qoia geil safes pdfa aqaatrstieey | arnrnrafrerc rec easter 11421993511 aoied wnaar sft weoramrg | aeireot oe nd Toa THAT TAT UIT [ereraifgar—gererevae:] Rereteaigat x ‘Te faaiterra at agraraenealadenafaentor, arene ot ‘SATT:-Q Vest ae ‘wre aaa Faraét aren: crgiie ar the segs rere, serine ore are TaETATE= R19 002 RR, 9S7_ = arefare fret 20 tte aa de rere FOREWORD With sense of extome gratfiestion we present to the lovers of Tantric Literature and the dovotess of Pardéakt the second re-edited and greatly revised edition of the second volume of the illustrious Tantric work, the Mstskilasammita, ‘ascribed to some Adinfthe end supposed to hve been eom= ‘poved in the 10th G, Though constituting ths latar part of the Semhit, this volume wae issuod first in view of its small ‘oxtant and ineidentliy, i was th first work tobe publishad by {hie Vidvapeetha star its take over by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan inthe year 1971 ‘hie volume ie aptly named as the Kamakals-Knands since 2 with the wish-fulling aepoct of the goddess Mana Goddess MaiSkalt, according tO this text, ls the Chief Goddess Df the whole Tantric system baced on the Vamscdia practices ‘who manifests. Herself in fittyone (61) different female forms, ome furious end other Benign, in order to. receive worship ‘rom her devotees according 19 theit own coneaot of divinity nd subjective. preforenose, Tho conta aspoct ‘of the Goddess behind all theee vetiod manifestations remains, however, to be that of Kemakal@ Kali whoto Mantra, Yantra and Ohyana provide the basic framework ofthe ritual of Pa} ‘Tho Kamakals-Khanda is a sort of appendix tothe main body of the work which je Knows as GuhyakalieKhanda. Both Khendas'tonether conetitute: what 1s known as the Mahakala- samnits. in epite of the claims of many other smaller. texts professing to be “genuine parts’ of the Mehakalasambitd and ‘Of the Views: of some Tantric Ssdhakas who consider afew ‘ther texts t00 a8 forming part of the greater Mabaklasar IW Taoks certain that the original SambitS consisted of thase two Khindas eniy sinoe most of the quotations from the Mahakalese™nita in younger works like Tardbhalet-sudharaavs «my and Purascaryamava ate available in those two khandas and ‘the intemal evidences. slso suggest the existence of Guha and Kame kharidas only Accordingly, revised edition has @ diffrent numbering of the Patales. Whoreas In the first edition the 15 Patelas of this Khanda were numbered as Patain 24% ta Patala, 258 fol- owing @fow manuscripts, in the present edition they hove, been ‘numbered plaoly #5 Patala 1 0 15. When the frat edition was printed, we. wore of the opinion that we may be able to got ‘tho intervening Paalas In future, 2 hope and an esumstion ‘which havo not materialised themselves. ‘An initiated. sadhaka would immediatly dicoarn that thie art of the Mehakalasamhita contains a number of Menta end Prayogss which are held exceptionally. sacred and kept zealously ‘Secret by the Preceptor ofthis esoteric science even from the ‘most favourite of their pupils. A few of the Tantikas were, therefore, not very happy when this Khonds was firet out iy 1871. The situation has taken a slighty postive tuin now efter 18 yosrs. Dr. Umesh Mishra, the Secretary of Sir Gengonaine ‘Jha Research Institute had entrusted the task of editing this Work tothe foremost of all Tantric echolers ofthat time, namcly Mahamaboritdhyaya Gopinotha Kavi Wo ere Now very heppy thatthe fist edition could be brought out undor his able and scholarly editorship. He Who viewad the things from a much higher plane. and 2 much diferent perspective than that of 8 common Sanakeitist cm) Since the serial numbers of Patalas glven inthe protace of ‘Mm. Gopinetha Kavi} correspond to the old edition the teadere are advited to road No. 1Instocd of No. 241, No. 2 Instead of No, 242 and 90 on. The last Patala je. No.15 corresponds to Patala 265 of the old edition. In preparing ths now and revisad edition, Dr. Kishora Nath Jha hes .not only utilised the manuscript material which could rot be.considered test time duo to Is late arrival or non-avall- ability at that time, but hes elso tied to rectify the editorial ‘and printing mistakes of the last edition. He has done this ‘work with full ovetion and utmost sincerity and hae embellish ‘0d this work with a number of new and useful eppendices, 1 ‘offer my sincare thanks to him and congratulate him for tis, seholarly production, | hope that both the scholars as wall as tho sidhakas shall find the work useful in thelr own vay and both shall denve Donetit fiom It seoording to thelr own needs and dosios. Let ‘the goddess Kamakals full shir wishes. 6.6. TRIPATHI Allshabea PRINCIPAL Cheitre Pi 24th Apal, 1936,