of the Pāñcarātra school The emphasis in Vaikhānasa and Pāñcarātra rituals of worship is stated to be on Vedic and Tāntric forms respectively.
The origin of the Vaikhānasa Āgamas is attributed to Vikhamas or Brahma himself who revealed the śastra through his four disciples Atri, Marīci, Kaśyapa and Bhrgu each of whom wrote a Samhitā of his own Of these, the Atri and Marīci Samhitas are already printed and published by the authorities of the Sri Venkateswara Temple at Trupati where worship is according to the Vaikhānasa Āgama. The Bhrgu Sahitā also is expected to be soon published by the same authorities Further, a number of works of this School --about ten in number-have been published mainly in Telugu script, in the Vaikhānasa Granthamālā Series Madras A work under the title of Vaikhānasa Agama and attributed to Marici was edited by K Sambasiva Sastri and published in 1935 as No 121 in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. It is interesting to note that śri Vedanta Desika, the celebrated author of the present work on the Pāñcarātra school (of which he was a devoted follower) has written a work about the Vaikhānasa Āgama also . This work is entitled Sajjana Vaibhava'
As regards the Literature of the Pāñcarātra system, Dr Schrader gives a synopsis of no less than 215 Samhitās listed as works of this school (Vide pp 6 to 11 of his Introduction to the Pāñcarātra) He also adds "There are further a number of Samhitās, quoted or mentioned by name, which seem to be different from those of the Lists complete list should some day reveal many more names Only 11 of these were available to Dr Schrader In print when he published his introduction to the Pāñcarātra in 1916 of these, he gives the following details on pages 12 and 13
