and graciously served as my academic advisor in India. Bahulkar of the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, who arranged for my affiliation with the t.m.v. ![]() I am grateful to the staff of the AIIS office in Pune for their logistical support as well, and particularly to Prof. For access to manuscripts and other research materials, I am grateful to the curators and staff of the National Archives of Kathmandu, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Department of Sanskrit (Manuscript Division) of Vi´svabh¯arat¯ı University, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Van Pelt Library, Nepal Research Center, and AIIS Center for Art and Archeology. The departments of Religious Studies and South Asia Studies at Penn both provided me travel grants at various times, and sustained my intellectual journey in numerous other ways. Several years of my graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania were funded by the university itself, while the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute and the American Institute of Indian Studies provided the fellowships necessary for conducting dissertation research. Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2007Īcknowledgements The present study would have been impossible without the support of numerous individuals and institutions. ![]() ¯ THE BRAHMAYAMALATANTRA AND ´ ¯ EARLY SAIVA CULT OF YOGINIS
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