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highly intricate process, and energized by siddh mantras, this seemingly

innocuous geometrical figures are employed for any number of reasons of

desires: whether to attain wealth, ward off disease, beget a son, vanquish

enemies, or even to cause somebody's death. This book, from Professor Bunce,

highlights the essential import of these innocuous-looking, yet enigmatic,

diagrams surfacing from the occult practices of the tantrics. The author, an

internationally known scholar of Oriental Art, examines a range of tantric

yantras, with their varieties, applications, modes of construction and, above

all, their iconographic features, Also interwoven in his text are lucid

descriptions of all else associated with a yantra, notably, its deity, its

specific purpose, its predominant and secondary numbers, and its mantra.

Carrying beautiful representations of over a hundred yantras, Bunce's study

holds out enduring appeal to the readers concerned not only with the

iconography of tantric yantras, but their mystifying under-pinnings as well.

Contents List of Plates Abbreviations Preface Introduction Numbers as

Symbols ls Yantra Construction, Variations and Application Constructing the

Sacred Enclosure (bhupur) Variations on the

Bhupura ShapeConstruction of the Patal Shape Basic Yantra Iconography

Applications of the Yantra Form Temple Plan Based on a Mandala (Yantra)

Astronomical Chart Based on Sarvatabhadra Yantra Janan Yantra Linga Mandala as

Yantra Rajasthani Yantra (c.17th C.) Thangka with Nine Mandala-Yantras Shri

Chakra Yantra Yantras Amba Matta Yantra / Annapurna Yantra /

Bagla Yantra / Balarama (avatara) Yantra

mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">/ Bala-Shakti Yantra /

Bala-Tripura Yantra / Bhairon Yantra / Bhuvaneshvari Yantra / Chinnamasta

Yantra / Devi Yantra / Dhanda Yantra / Dhumavati Yantra / Durga Yantra / Ganesh

Yantra / Gayatri Yantra / Hanumat (Hanuman) Yantra / Hayagriva Yantra / Kali

Yantra / Kalki Yantra / Kamala Yantra / Krishna (avatara) Yantra / Kurma

(avatara) Yantra / Maha-Ganapati Yantra / Maha-Lakshmi Yantra / Maha-Mritanje

(Shiva) Yantra / Mangala (Hanuman) Yantra / Matangi Yantra / Matsya (avatara)

Yantra / Mrit-Sanjivani Yantra / Narasimha (avatara) Yantra / Navagraha Yantra

(MagicSquares) / Navagraha Yantra (Combined) / Parashurama (avatara) Yantra /

Rama (avatara) Yantra / Sarasvati Yantra / Sharabha Yantra / Shitala Yantra /

Shiva

Yantra / Shodashi (Tripura-Sundari) Yantra / Shri-chakram Yantra / Shyama (Kali)

Yantra / Surya Yantra / Tara Yantra / Tripura(ntaka)-Bhairavi Yantra (1) /

Vamana (avatara) Yantra / Varaha (avatara) Yantra / Vartali Yantra / Vighnaraja

Yantra / Vishnu Yantra

mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Thank you

EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Aravind

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