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Can some one share light on list of 64 Shakti Tantras? which reference can i look upon for more light on this?

Many Thanks,
Jyothi

There are many different lists of the 64 tantras. Below is a brief excerpt from the Hindu Tantric and Śākta Literature by Teun Goudriaan and Sanjukta Gupta:

Besides attempts at classification, we often find in the Tantras assessments of the size of Tantric literature. While the Samhitas of the Pāñcarātra were traditionally counted as one hundred and eight, and the Śaiva Āgamas as twenty-eight, the accepted number of Tantras is sixty-four. Our earliest authority for this figure is probably the Vīṇāśikha Tantra (st.9) which says that there were sixty-four "disciples in the Tantras". Abhinavagupta points out that the Trika philosophy is the essence of the Lord's teachings which are divided over the series often, eighteen and sixty-four texts. The “ten” are the Śaivāgamas: Kāmika etc. and the "eighteen" are the Rudrāgamas: Vijaya etc. These two groups together make up the "classic" series of Āgamas; the Śaivāgamas are held to be dualistic, the Rudrāgamas to keep an intermediate position between monism and dualism, and the sixty-four "Bhairavāgamas" are said to teach pure monism. The latter number thus became canonical for Tantric literature. When it comes to filling up this number with real titles, important differences can be noticed. The two oldest lists preserved are those from the Nityāṣoḍaśikārṇava (1,13f.) and from the Śrīkaṇṭhī or Śrīkaṇṭhasaṃhitā quoted by Jayaratha on Tantrāloka 1,18 (ed., p. 42). The Nityāṣoḍaśikārṇava list was taken over with variants by the Kulacūḍāmaṇi Tantra (l,4f.) and by Lakṣmīdhara in his commentary on the Saundaryalaharī. More recent, and very different, lists can be found in the Sarvollāsa and the Āgamatattvavilāsa. The list from the Śrīkaṇṭhī is neatly structured into eight groups of eight texts connected with the standard series of eight Bhairavas; first come the eight Bhairavatantras, likewise taught by the Bhairavas: Svacchanda etc.; secondly, eight Yāmalas (Brahma etc.); thirdly, the Mata’s (Rakta etc.); fourthly, the Maṅgalas (Bhairavī etc.); fifthly, eight Cakras; these are followed by the Bahurūpas, the Vagīśas and the Śikhās. All this is scarcely realistic; we may assume that the principle of division according to the last element of the title was at work also here, enriched by a tendency to fill out schemes with additional titles referring to deities.

The Nityāṣoḍaśikārṇava list looks somewhat less artificial. But here also, we find the "eight Bhairavas", "eight Bahurūpas" and "eight Yāmalas" and, besides, five Āmnāyas. Among other items are the Mahāmāyā (or Mahāmāyāśamvara) at the beginning (the Nos. 1-4 are four Śamvaras), and the Candrajñāna, Vātula, Kāmika, Vāmakeśvara, Kubjikāmata, Vīṇā, Bhūtaḍāmara, Kulacūḍāmaṇi, Siddhayogeśvarī and Vīrāvali, all of them without doubt ancient texts quoted elsewhere or even preserved. However, several authoritative works such as the Mālinīvijaya (if not identical with the Siddhayogeśvarī), Netra, Kulārṇava, Kaulajñānavinirnaya and many texts quoted by Abhinavagupta in his Tantrāloka are absent from this list. Some of them may be of later date, but the conclusion is unavoidable that the accepted number of sixty-four already at an early date was not sufficient to include all the extant texts. Besides, many were probably omitted on purpose because they did not belong to a tradition respected by the compilers who might have been prone to accept doctrinal affinity rather than historical fact. A late and apocryphal list of 192 Tantras ordered according to the threefold division into Krantas is ascribed to the Mahāsiddhasāratantra.

Below is an example of one of the lists of the 64 Tantras given in 2nd Chapter of Sarvollāsa Tantra:

  1. Kālī Tantra
  2. Muṇḍamālā Tantra
  3. Tārā Tantra
  4. Nirvāṇa Tantra
  5. Śiva Sāra Tantra
  6. Vīra Tantra
  7. Liṅgārcana Tantra
  8. Latārcana Tantra
  9. Todala Tantra
  10. Nīla Tantra
  11. Rādhā Tantra
  12. Viśvasāra Tantra
  13. Bhairava Tantra
  14. Bhairavī Tantra
  15. Siddheśvara Tantra
  16. Mātṛkābheda Tantra
  17. Samaya Tantra
  18. Guptasadhana Tantra
  19. Mātṛkā Tantra
  20. Māyā Tantra
  21. Mahāmāyā Tantra
  22. Akṣayā Tantra
  23. Kumārikā Tantra
  24. Mahat Tantra
  25. Kaulārṇava Tantra
  26. Kālikā Kulasarvasva Tantra
  27. Kālikā Kalpatantra
  28. Vārāhī Tantra
  29. Yoginī Tantra
  30. Yoginīhṛdaya Tantra
  31. Sanatkumāra Tantra
  32. Tripurāsāra Tantra
  33. Yoginī Vijaya Tantra
  34. Mālinī Tantra
  35. Kukkuṭa Tantra
  36. Śrī Gaṇeśa Tantra
  37. Bhūta Tantra
  38. Uḍḍīśa Tantra
  39. Kāmadhenu Tantra
  40. Vīrabhadra Tantra
  41. Vāmakeśvara Tantra
  42. Kulacūḍāmaṇi Tantra
  43. Bhāvacūḍāmaṇi Tantra
  44. Jñānārṇava Tantra
  45. Varadā Tantra
  46. Tantra Cintāmaṇi Tantra
  47. Kālīvilāsa Tantra
  48. Haṃsa Tantra
  49. Cidāmbara Taṭa Tantra
  50. Vijñāpana Tantra
  51. Phetkāriṇī Tantra
  52. Nityā Tantra
  53. Uttara Tantra
  54. Nārāyaṇī Tantra
  55. Ūrdhvāmnāyaka Tantra
  56. Jñānadīpa Tantra
  57. Gāndharva Tantra
  58. Kuñjikā Tantra
  59. Tantra Muktabalī Tantra
  60. Bṛhat Tantra
  61. Śrīkrama Tantra
  62. Yonī Tantra,
  63. Kāmākhyā Tantra,
  64. Prokta Tantra
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