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187 See on the mātaṅgavidyā; U.P. Shah (1953). Mātaṅgī is mentioned by Vāgbhaṭa (A.h.U. 35.30). See on Mātaṅgī, who is also one of the ten Mahāvidyās: S.C. Banerji (1988): 30; B. Bhattacharyya (1964): 148; M.L.B. Blom (1989): 53–57; G.W. Briggs (1953): 538–542; R. Dikṣit (1992–93): Bagalāmukhī evaṃ Mātaṅgī tantra-śāstra 91–108, 141–166; D. Heilijgers-Seelen (1994): 31, 107; D. Kinsley (1997; see index); K.R. van Kooij (1972; see index); H. Nakamura (1996): 318; S. Satpathy (1992): 3, 53–54, 62–63, 70–71, 102. Mātaṅgī is moreover one of the names of Pārvatī (H. Krishna Sastri, 1916: 224). The Caṇḍālī Mātaṅgī is in Buddhist literature a temptress who bothered Ānanda (R. Birnbaum, 1989: 90).