The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.7

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The Sādhanamālā does not however exhaust the material for the study of Indian Buddhist Iconography. One of the Sādhanamālā Mss. is dated in the Newari Era 285 corresponding to A.D. 1165, and therefore, this work is not expected to record all the developments that took place after 1165 A. D. Many of the later developments are found incorporated in the work entitled the Dharmakoṣasaṅgraha of Amṛtānanda who was the Residency Pandit when B. Hodgson was the Resident of Nepal. A manuscript of this work is preserved in the Durbar Library of Nepal, and there is also a copy of the original, preserved in the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in the Government Collection. Amṛtānanda’s work is not published.