A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.443

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409 Ḍākinīs are mentioned, for example, in the Arkaprakāśa (6.65), Gadanigraha (kāya 1.617) and Kālidāsa’s Vaidyamanoramā (14.25; 19.31). These female beings, known as attendants of Kālī in Hindu texts, are fairly ubiquitous in Buddhist Tantric literature. See on them: P.C. Bagchi (1931); J.N. Banerjea (1966): 128–129; Dowson; G.-W. Essen and T.T. Thingo (1989): Tafelband 174–179; A. Getty (1928): 119; A.K. Gordon (1967): 80–82; A. Grünwedel (1970): 153–158; A. Hermann-Pfandt (1992), (1996), (1997); D. Heilijgers-Seelen (1994; see index); M.M. Kalff (1978); N. Katz (1977); H.W. Schumann (1986): 173–185; D.L. Snellgrove (1957): 175, 203–204, 233–234, (1959): 135; M. and J. Stutley (1977); M.-Th. de Mallmann (1975): 148–149; L.A. Waddell (1958): 366; J.D. Willis (1987).