The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.8

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Besides Amṛtānanda’s work there are others more ancient and capable of supplying much iconographic material. One such work is the Niṣpannayogāvalī of Mahāpaṇḍita Abhayākara Gupta of the Vikramaśīla monastery who flourished during the reign of the Pala King Rāmapāla (A.D. 1084-1130). This valuable work is now published in the Gaekwad’s Oriental Series as No. 109 with an elaborate introduction and a full summary of its contents