The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c2.3

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After 1924, the texts of the Sādhanamālā and the Niṣpannayogāvalī were published. Both these texts proved to be veritable mines of information on Buddhist gods and goddesses. Between the two publications, the edition of the Advayavajrasaṅgraha and the Guhyasamāja followed in rapid succession, and the information furnished in these two excellent texts not only added to my difficulties, but also changed materially the whole outlook underlying the classification and arrangement of Buddhist deities. These Sanskrit texts were published in the Gaekwad’s Oriental Series when I was the General Editor under my erstwhile Master, the late His Highness Maharaja Sayaji Rao III, Gaekwad of Baroda and his illustrious Dewan Sir V. T. Krishnama Chariar, now Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for the Republic of India.