Matrkabheda-Tantram

Sritattvacintamani is a tantric treatise composed in Sanskrit verses by a sixteenth century Sadbaka of Bengal, Paramahamsa Purnananda. The work contains as many as twentysix chapters, called Prakasas, on almost all the subjects of tantric importance, the most important of which is the sixth known as Satcakranirupana and published several times as an independent book. The topics discussed in this book includeinitiation for a religious ceremony, places etc. for initiation and other things. Tantra denotes the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable “text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice”.