Teun Goudriaan and Sanjukta Gupta's volume, part of Jan Gonda's History of Indian Literature series, is the standard scholarly survey of the Hindu Tantric and Shakta textual corpus, cataloguing and describing the major Tantras, their manuscript traditions, dating and doctrinal content, and remains a primary reference work for the field of Tantric studies.
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Citation
AuthorTeun Goudriaan and Sanjukta Gupta
PublisherOtto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (A History of Indian Literature, Vol. 2, Fasc. 2)
Publication Year1981
Source TypeScholarly study
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
A named specialists' survey published within an established academic history-of-literature series, the standard scholarly reference for this textual corpus. Claims Backed By This Source (42 claims)
This source backs 42 claims across the atlas. As facts: 28 well-attested, 4 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Esoteric Texts, 28 claims: 16 well-attested, 4 scholarly debate, 6 holds, 2 general references.
- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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