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1 NCC VI, 178. Check-list Nr. 306. Cat. BHU Nr. 38: completed in A.D. 1660/61. AVI 307–308. Tāntrika Sāhitya 193. Edition: Gorakṣasaṃhitā, edited by Janārdana Pāṇḍeya, Sarasvatī-bhavana-granthamālā, vol. 110, 1 st ed., 2 vols., Vārāṇasī 1976 and 1977; both volumes contain an upodghāta by the editor and are provided with useful (although incomplete) indexes; the edition is mainly based on a MS of the Sarasvatī Bhavan Library (*MS Nr. 25572; see the upodghāta to vol. 1, pages tha and da). The author refers to the Bhūtiprakaraṇa as Śivasūtra (9.132). The colophons call the treatise Svacchanda Gorakṣasaṃhitā (chapters one to five), and Svacchandaśaktyavatāra Śatasāhasrī Gorakṣasaṃhitā (chapters six, seven and nine). See on references to Svacchanda in the work: D.G. White (1996): 156; this author regards the Bhūtiprakaraṇa as belonging to the Svacchandabhairava canon; he refers to the fact that its opening chapter calls the treatise an abridgment of a much longer rasatantra revealed by Svacchanda. See on Svacchanda texts: Tāntrika Sāhitya 720–721.