[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c92.40 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.40 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.40 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c92.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.40) 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 - [Previous: v7.c92.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.39) - [Next: v7.c92.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.41) - [Up: v7.c92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92) ## Cites (2) - [Bṛhatsaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.rsi.brhatsamhita.57.56) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit - [Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.vaisnava.visnudharmottara) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.40) · Pramāṇa