Re: Kumara Tantra

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

https://archive.org/details/kumara-tantram

https://www.sanskritdocuments.org/doc_subrahmanya/kumAratantram.html

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 16:30, Sthaneshwar Timalsina <samvid...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have seen the Kumaratantra only in citations. Is this available?

Sincerely,

Sthaneshwar

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 3:09 PM T Ganesan <gan...@shaivastudies.in> wrote:

Dear Learned friends,

Yes. As Vishvas writes, the Tamizh Kandapuranam is definitely a text describing the divine लीला-s which are heroic, of Skanda-Murugan. Some of the Saivasiddhanta concepts are also mentioned though not in much detail in the text by the great Arcaka-poet, Kacciyappa Sivacharya. This is a unique feature that a temple Arcaka is also a great poet !!

But there is also the  कुमारतन्त्रम् , which is held as un उपागम  of the कारणागम, one of the 28 शैवसिद्धान्त मूलागम. There happens to be more than one recension of this कुमारतन्त्रम् and many Murugan temples follow this text though not in its entirety.

With regards

Ganesan

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 14:48, विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:

अन्तर्जालय् एवं दृष्टम् - 

This tamizh Canon includes the peerless text of the कन्दपुराणम्, a 17th century tamizh पुराण on स्कन्द written by कच्चियप्प (कश्यप) शिवाचार्य, an अर्चक of the कुमारकोट्टम् (kumārakoṭṭam) shrine for स्कन्द in काञ्चिपुरम्, TN.  

It is not just a work containing the stories of the deity मुरुगन् but is filled with many refrerences to rituals & even philosophical concepts.  
Given that the author was a revered अर्चक who was a master of the सिद्धान्तागम rites, if there is any book that should be revered by one purporting to be a devotee of स्कन्द & also following the सिद्धान्त, that book is the कन्दपुराणम्. 

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 12:55, विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:

अत्राहम् अविद्वान्। 

किञ्च कांश्चन प्रक्ष्यामि।   

अपि च cc-कृतो गणेशार्यः किमपि जानीयात्?

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 03:08, Sthaneshwar Timalsina <samvid...@gmail.com> wrote:

the more i familiarize myself with the esotericism of Kumara Muruga the more I get intrigued. I find the tradition of Kumara in the south at the heart of tantric esotericism but I do not have many practices that come directly from the Agamas that relate to Kumara. I know there used to be Skanda Agama but I have not read it. The early Siddhanta texts with Skanda coming in dialogue do not address the tantric esotericism that I experienced. 

Now I am convinced that Tamil tradition is different, has its own esotericism surrounding Muruga and without learning this, there is no knowledge of Skanda Tantra.

Now, my question is, what literature can you come across on this topic? 

ST

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