Bhaskara_Raya (1690-1785) is the unquestioned authority for all questions pertaining to the worship of Mother Goddess in Hinduism .The worship of Shakti involves many hidden meanings of mantras and coded passages. The Hindu religious world owes a lot to Bhaskara Raya for his writings on these meanings, revealed to him by the Goddess Herself. His works number more than 40 and range from Vedanta to poems of devotion. from Logic and Grammar to the labyrinths and nuances of the Science of Tantra and from commentaries on rare works to original compositions on rare subjects. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article is about the Hindu religious concept. ... In Tibet, many Buddhists carve mantras into rocks as a form of devotion. ... Veda means knowledge and anta the end, so the literal meaning is the end of knowledge or the ultimate knowledge. ... Tantra (Sanskrit: loom) [The Sanskrit word tantra means to weave. Tibetan scholars translated the term as gyu (rgyud), which means continuity] , tantric yoga or tantrism is any of several esoteric traditions rooted in the religions of India. ...

Particularly his three books Varivasya Rahasyam, Sowbhagya Bhaskaram and Sethu Bandham are considered to be the holy triad on the worship of Mother Goddess through her most secret mantras. The first is a scientific commentary on Sri Vidya mantra and worship. The second is a commentary on Lalita sahasranama. The third is a deeper technical treatise on Tantric practice.

Bhaskara Raya was born in Bhaga in Maharashtra, India. His father was a great scholar who initiated the son in scholarly traditions even at an early age. He was taken to Kashi (Benares) and put under the tutelege of a renowned Pundit there. He was initiated into the Sri Vidya Mantra and Upasana (Worship) by Guru Shiva Dutta Shukla of Surat. Later he toured the Gujarat region and won in debate several scholars of the Madhva tradition.

A disciple king of his invited him to the South and gifted him a whole village on the banks of the Cauvery river. Bhaskara Raya made that village his headquarters for the rest of his life. It later came to be known as Bhaskara-raja-puram. During his stay there and the nearby town of Madhyarjunam his spiritual and psychic greatness got revealed through scores of miracles.

--69.251.143.213 22:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)V. Krishnamurthy. 14 July 2005