Reviews on Iconography of Śrī Vidyārṇava Tantra
The Hindu, V. Raghavan, January 28, 1945
The students of Iconography in general, of Sakta Iconography in particular may find this useful.
Indian Express, February 5, 1945 – Dr. R. Nagaraj Sharma
The contents of the booklet would be found highly useful and interesting by the students of the special branch of Indian occultism represented by the extensive mass of Tantric literature. Mr. Sastriar has discussed at fairly full length the problems relating to the date and identity of the author, which chronologists would find thought provoking. Mr. Srikantha Sastri has to be congratulated on this excellent piece of research.
Prabhuddha Bharata – May. 1945, p. 136
This small work, the result of detailed research by a scholar of repute will serve as an excellent guide to students of Indian Iconography in making a comparative study of various Tantric texts.
Annals of Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, Vol XXVI, 1945. P.169 by P. K. Ghode.
We are glad to find Prof Sastri analysing the Sri Vidyārṇava Tantra, published by the Government of Kashmir (1932 – 37) and presenting the Iconographic data in a clear cut form for the benefit of the students of Indian Iconography. His method is worthy of being followed by other scholars…to compile a dictionary of Indian Iconography. In this manner alone can the science of Indian Iconography be given in the proper historical perspective worth the name. In this brochure Prof Sastri has given us the Iconographic material under the groups of images. The essential characteristics of these groups have also been pointed out. This grouping will be found useful not only by students of Hindu religion who care to know the Iconographic aspect. We trust that Prof Sastri will himself analyse at least a few major tantras pertaining to different periods of history so as to make his study representative of the entire field of Indian Iconography……The regional aspect of Indian Iconography deserves our special attention. We therefore congratulate Prof. Sastri on the present critical study, which is as painstaking and scholarly as his previous studies in the fields of Indology.