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The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla. The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition
| Author | Critically edited and translated by James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 203 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚150 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 2 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-242-2 (IFP); 978-2-85539-245-5 (EFEO) |
| Price | 500.00 INR (19.00 EUR) |
The Vārāṇasīmāhātmya of the Bhairavaprādurbhāva: A Twelfth-Century Glorification of Vārāṇasī
| Author | by Peter C. Bisschop |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | iv, 190 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚148 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-240-8 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-243-1 (EFEO) |
| Price | 500.00 INR (19.00 EUR) |
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇam. The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa with the Nirañjanī commentary by Ramyatna Shukla and Prakāśa explanatory notes by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu. Part III (Samāsaśaktinirṇaya)
| Author | Critically edited by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | xxxiii, 547 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚149; Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Shastra Grantha series n˚ 7 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-241-5 (IFP) / 978-93-83097-46-3 (SSSU) / 978-2-85539-244-8 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1400.00 INR (45.00 EUR) |
The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā. A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55
| Author | Csaba Kiss |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 608 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n° 146 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 1 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-239-2 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-241-7 (EFEO) |
| Price | 900.00 INR (32.00 EUR) |
Niśvāsamukhatattvasaṃhitā, A Preface to the Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra (on non-Tantric Śaivism at the Dawn of the Mantramārga). Critical Edition, with Introduction & Annotated Translation and an Appendix containing Śivadharmasaṅgraha 5–9.
| Author | Edited by Nirajan Kafle with a foreword by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 555 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 145 / Early Tantra Series n˚ 6 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-237-8 (IFP) ; 978-2-85539-240-0 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (43.00 EUR) |
Flowers in Cupped Hands for Śiva. A critical edition of the Śambhupuṣpāñjali, a seventeenth-century manual of private worship by Saundaranātha
| Author | edited by Deviprasad Mishra with the help of the late S. Sambandhaśivācārya and with an introduction by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 416 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 144 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-236-1 (IFP) ; 978-2-85539-239-4 (EFEO) |
| Price | 900.00 INR (38.00 EUR) |
Temple Design in Six Early Śaiva Scriptures. Critical edition and translation of the prāsādalakṣaṇa-portions of the Bṛhatkālottara, Devyāmata, Kiraṇa, Mohacūrottara, Mayasaṃgraha & Piṅgalāmata
| Author | Libbie Mills |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 665 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 138 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-228-6 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-233-2 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1500.00 INR (65.00 EUR) |
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇam. The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa with the Nirañjanī commentary by Ramyatna Shukla and Prakāśa explanatory notes by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu. Part II (Lakārārtha-, Kārakārtha- and Nāmārtha-chapters)
| Author | Critically edited by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | [10], xxviii, 598 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚139; Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Shastra Grantha series n˚ 5 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-230-9 (IFP) / 978-93-83097-33-3 (SSSU) / 978-2-85539-234-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1400.00 INR (60.00 EUR) |
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata. Volume I: Chapters 1–2, 39–40 & 83. Revelation, Ritual, and Material Culture in an Early Śaiva Tantra
| Author | Shaman Hatley |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | xiv, 695 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 133; Early Tantra Series n˚ 5 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-226-2 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-231-8 (EFEO). |
| Price | 1600.00 INR (70.00 EUR) |
Domestic Rituals of the Atharvaveda in the Paippalāda Tradition of Orissa: Śrīdhara’s Vivāhādikarmapañjikā. Volume I: Book One, Part One: General Prescriptions.
| Author | Edited with an introduction by Arlo Griffiths & Shilpa Sumant |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | cxxxiii, 172 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 135 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-224-8 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-227-1 (EFEO). |
| Price | 800.00 INR (35.00 EUR) |
Avacchedakatāniruktiḥ. The Avacchedakatānirukti (of the Dīdhiti and Gādādharī) with the Subodhā commentary by N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
| Author | Associate Editor S. Lakshminarasimham |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | vi, 290 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 8 / Vyākhyānamālā no 2. SCSVMV University Publication Series n˚ 38 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-210-1 (IFP) |
| Price | 650.00 INR (28.00 EUR) |
Tantric Studies. Fruits of a Franco-German project on Early Tantra
| Author | Edited by Dominic Goodall and Harunaga Isaacson |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | xxx, 305 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 131; Early Tantra Series n˚ 4 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-211-8 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-220-2 (EFEO). |
| Price | 800.00 INR (35.00 EUR) |
Śaiva Rites of Expiation. A First Edition and Translation of Trilocanaśiva’s Twelfth-Century Prāyaścittasamuccaya (With a Transcription of Hṛdayaśiva’s Prāyaścittasamuccaya)
| Author | Critically edited & translated by R. Sathyanarayanan with an introduction by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 651 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 127 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-203-3 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-218-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (52.00 EUR) |
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇam. The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa with the Nirañjanī commentary by Ramyatna Shukla and Prakāśa explanatory notes by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu. Part I.
| Author | Critically edited by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry & Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | xl, 592 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 6 ; Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Shastragrantha series n˚ 2 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-208-8 |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (52.00 EUR) |
Bhāṭṭatantrarahasyam. The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya of Khaṇḍadeva with the Sāraprakāśikā commentary by N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
| Author | N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya; associate editor S. Lakshminarasimham |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | xxi, 664 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 4 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-204-0 |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (52.00 EUR) |
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata. Volume II. The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45
| Author | A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Csaba Kiss |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 373 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 130; Early Tantra Series n˚ 3 |
| Language | Sanskrit (in Roman transliteration), English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-207-1 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-153-3 (EFEO) |
| Price | 750.00 INR (32.00 EUR) |
The Niśvāsatattvasaṃ̣hitā. The Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra. Volume 1. A Critical Edition & Annotated Translation of the Mūlasūtra, Uttarasūtra & Nayasūtra
| Author | Edited by Dominic Goodall in collaboration with Alexis Sanderson & Harunaga Isaacson with contributions of Nirajan Kafle, Diwakar Acharya & others |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 662 p |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 128; Early Tantra Series n˚ 1 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-205-7 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-151-9 (EFEO) |
Early Tantric Vaiṣṇavism: Three Newly Discovered Works of the Pañcarātra. The Svāyambhuvapañcarātra, Devāmṛtapañcarātra and Aṣṭādaśavidhāna
| Author | Critically edited from their 11th- and 12th-century Nepalese palm-leaf manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes by Diwakar Acharya |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | lxxxvi, 229 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 129; Early Tantra Series n˚ 2 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-206-4 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-152-6 (EFEO). |
| Price | 700.00 INR (30.00 EUR) |
The Parākhyatantra. A Scripture of the Śaiva Siddhānta.
| Author | A critical edition and annotated translation by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | cxxvi, 669 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie nº98 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-118-0 |
Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita on the Gajasūtra
| Author | S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, François Grimal with the collaboration of Luther Obrock |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | iii, 136 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n°1. Vyākhyānamālā n°1 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-196-8 |
| Price | 450.00 INR (21.00 EUR) |