The Garland of Letters: Studies in the Mantra-Sastra
Sir John woodroffe (Arthur Avalon) was instrumental in removing many of the cobwebs of ignorance that had come to cluster round the Sakta philosophy and practice. The decent Indian mind that had developed a deep-seated prejudice against the Tantras became awake to their excellence after the pioneering work of the great foreigner.By editing the original Sanskrit texts,as also by publsishing essays on the different aspects of Saktism,he showed that this cult had aprofound philosophy behind it,and that there was nothing irrational or obscuranist about the technique of worship it recommends. --Prof.T.M.P.Mahadevan