History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.40

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¹⁶⁸³ मातृणां च प्रमुदितघनात्यर्थनिर्ह्रादिनीनां तन्त्रोद्भूत-प्रवलपवनोद्वर्त्तिताम्भोनिधीनाम्। in Gupta Inscription No 17 p. 72 The बृहत्संहिता 57 56 provides rules about images of Mātṛs 'मातृगण. कर्तव्य. स्वनामदेवानुरूपकृतचिह्न.', the विष्णुधर्मोत्तरपुराण (in I 226) mentions a large number of मातृs including काली and महाकाली (in all over 180) Vide a recent work on 'the Cult of the Mother Goddesses' by E O. James (London, 1959), of which pp. 99-124 deal with India, 'Matsyendranātha and his Yoginī cult' by Dr. Karambelkar in *I H. Q.* Vol XXXI (for 1955) pp 362-374, which show that Ādīnātha (Śiva Himself) was the guru of Matsyendranātha, who was himself guru of Gorakṣanātha, the former being called Luipa (in Tibet), one of the 84 *Siddhas*, vide Cunningham's Archaeological Survey Report IX, for the temple of 64 Yoginīs at Bheraghat and 'Tāntrik cult in Epigraphs' by Mr. B. P. Desai in *J. O. R.* (Mad.), Vol. 19 pp 285-288