Chapter 1 - History and scope of Tantric Literature

Brahmatāntrikam, Puspanjalividhānaṃ, Pūjā-kalaśodbhavaprakāra, Kaumārabali, Kālītantram, Dvādaśyārādhania, Mandalacatuskalakṣaṇam, Prayogaratnamālā, Mahaganapatikalpam, Balikalpaṃ, Mahāsaṃmohanatantraṃ, Mātṛsadbhāvam, Vijayabalikalpa, Nāgabalikalpa, Kukkutakalpam, Mūrttitrayakalpam, Skandasadbāvam, Dhvajapratiṣṭhāvidhi, Sāstṛpūjākrama, Viṣṇuśāstrupūjākrama, Viṣṇupūjakrama, Pārvatyupāsanakrama, Raktacāmuṇdīkalpaṃ, Avahatikalpam, Kriyākramadyotikā, Tantranirṇaya, Kṣetrapālajīrṇoddhāra, Prayogaratnākaram, Vanadurgākalpa, Tantrasamuccayaśilpabhāga, Srīmūrtilakṣaṇaṃ, Keśavādicaturdasamurtilakṣaṇam, a Rudradimantrakrama, Astamurtilaksna etc. Seen in the background of the importance assigned to Tantra into traditional Kerala society, it is a safe guess that there could have been many more Tantric and related works and works on art, architecture, murals, iconography, sculpture etc. in Kerala which remain untraced and unpublished and, in many cases lost due to neglect which is the direct offshoot of the influence of modernity. Important Malayalam works on Tantra There have been many original adapted and translated versions of standard Tantric works into Malayalam besides religious based one commenteries in the vernacular. Some of the important ones from among them deserves special mention and is listed here in the 51