கிழக்கிந்திய தாந்திரீகப் பாடல்கள்

Some Kind of tantric songs are available in Eastern part of India (Bihar, Odisha, Assam, and west Bengal) which were written between the period of 1050-1200. This Easy concentrates to introduce the tantric songs to the Tamil Researchers. Haraprasad Sastri (1853 – 1931) who was working as a librarian in Asiatic society was used to go Nepal for Official work. In the third time of his visit (1907) he found some tantric songs manuscript  which was translated to Nepali in 14th century. Haraprasad Sastri himself published the manuscript on 1916 in the original language of the manuscript— Apabhramsa which is origin language of the Mithila, Assam, Bihar, Orissa and Bengal.  Fifty songs are available now. But Scholars tell that It would have been more than fifty. These songs are called in various names like Charyachaya, bhoudha Gana O dhoka, charyakeeththi. These songs were written by twenty four saint poets. The Songs Itself has the poet’s name in the last line.  These songs are written on Buddhist traditions of Tantra. Some kind of continuation of the tantric tradition can be traceable in vaishnava tantric songs of Bauls.