History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.121

v7.c92.121

¹⁷⁴⁰ अनुग्रहाय लोकानां भट्टश्रीकल्लटादयः । अवन्तिवर्मणः काले सिद्धा भुवमवातरन् ॥ राजत. V. 66. अवन्तिवर्मन् reigned from 855 A. D. to 883 A. D. Kallata's is a great name in Kashmir Śaivism. It may be noted that the Vajrayāna cult of Buddhism speaks of 84 सिद्धपुरुषs that flourished from the 7th to the 9th century A. D. Vide Intro to E. B p. 34 and Bhiksu Rāhula Sānkrtyāyana's paper on 'the origin of Vajrayāna and the 84 siddhas' in J A. vol 225 (1934) pp 209-230 in which at pp. 220-225 there is a detailed list of the 84 *siddhas* from Lūīpā to Bhalipā with their castes and status, place of origin and names of the contemporaries of some of them from the 8th century A D. onwards. मत्स्येन्द्रनाथ is said to be the same as Lūīpā; vide I H. Q vol. XXXI pp. 362-375 for Dr. Karambelkar's paper on 'Matsyendranātha and his Yoginī cult'