History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.189

v7.c92.189

Numberless mantras are contained in the Tantras made from different arrangements of the constituent parts of a mantra. The Mahānirvāṇa first gives a mantra of ten syllables as noted below and then by different arrangements of the letters and by addition of certain other syllables and words like 'Kālike' it forms twelve mantras, remarks that there are crores of mantras and that the mantras contained in all Tantras are all mantras of the Great¹⁷⁸⁶ Devī.