Notes

1 The Kalika Purana assigns each of the four 'major' pithas (identical with the four of the Hevajra Tantra) a cardinal direction. Interestingly enough, exactly these four are the ones being most frequently named in our eight sources.
2 In lists of 4 pithas only, stana refers to both breasts. In the scheme of 51 pithas, however, there are two places associated with stana; with Ramagiri referring to the left one, Jalandhara to the right one.
3 In his book Tantra Yoga (1971), Nik Douglas surprises us by placing the famous Uddiyana Pith in Orissa. However, in the Sakta Pithas (1948), D.C. Sircar states very clearly (citing several sources) that this is a confusion dating back to several early texts; one of which Douglas must have followed.
4 Although some sources say that Kalika Pith represents a small toe (or four small toes), the Pithanirnaya's use of the term munda shows it to be the (severed) head; a most fitting association for Kali. Strangely enough, Sircar (p. 36f) lists this pitha twice (as #19 and #45) and with two different associations!?