A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s10.5

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³ Similarly, the word *tantra* originally signifies "web," then a system of instruction, a literary work, a book. In Chinese, too, the word "*king*" means "originally the warp of a texture, then standard, canon, and finally, in a metaphorical sense, any book which is considered as a rule or canon," s. W. Grube, Geschichte der chinesischen Litteratur, Leipzig, 1902, p. 31.