Banerji, Bengal, p. 31 (a list of tantric works; "he flourished probably in the first half of the tenth century at Candradvīpa in Noākhāli in East Bengal").
P.B. Desai, Tantric Cults in Epigraphs, Journal of Oriental Research Madras, vol. 19, no. 4 (June 1950), pp. 285-288. Says Matsyendranātha has been placed in the beginning of the 10th century, but it looks like he flourished about a century earlier (his argument, about an early 10th century sculpture of Gahanī having something to do with Matsyendra's grand-disciple Gahanīnātha, seems somehow dubious).
Debabrata Sensharma, ed., Matsyendra Saṃhitā, Ascribed to Matsyendranātha, The Asiatic Society (Calcutta 1994), part 1 (of two or more parts). Based on a manuscript at the Wellcome Institute. There is mention of a Cola king named Colendranātha. Review by E. Garzilli in Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 118, no. 4 (1998), pp. 543-545.
M.N. Deshpande, Praṇālaka (Panhāle Kājī) Caves: A Hīnayāna and Tantric Vajrayāna Centre with Nātha Sampradāya Caves, contained in: Buddhist Iconography, Tibet House (New Delhi 1989), pp. 69-73, at p. 71.
V.W. Karambelkar, Matsyendranātha and His Yoginī Cult. Indian Historical Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4 (December 1955), pp. 362-374.
Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, pp. 294, 373-374.
In an Islamicized yoga text, his name is given as Yunus (i.e., Jonah)! See Carl W. Ernst, The Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda Translations, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3, vol. 13, no. 2 (2003), p. 208.
Tucci, TPS, p. 231.
Dasgupta, ORC, p. 196 ff. Akulavīratantra attributed to him.
In list of 8 Nāths. See Dasgupta, ORC, p. 206. He resides in the southeast near the seacoast.
David Shulman, First Grammarian, First Poet: A South Indian Vision of Cultural Origins, contained in: Shaul Shaked, ed., Genesis and Regeneration: Essays on Conceptions of Origins, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Jerusalem 2005), pp. 223-247, at p. 229.
Prabodh Chandra Bagchi, Kaulajñānanirṇaya and Some Minor Texts of the School of Matsyendranātha, Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House (Calcutta 1934). The three short treatises are Akulavīratantra, Kulānandatantra, and Jñānakārikā.
P.C. Bagchi, ed., Kaulajñāna-nirṇaya of the School of Matsyendranath, tr. by Michael Magee, Tantra Granthamālā series no. 12, Prachya Prakashan (Varanasi 1986). Incorporating the 1934 work by Bagchi (but with much lower quality of printing), it adds an English translation.
Matsyendrasaṃhitā.
Debabrata Sensharma, ed., Matsyendra Saṃhitā, ascribed to Matsyendranatha, Part 1, Bibliotheca Indica Series no. 318 (Calcutta 1994). Reviewed by Enrica Garzilli, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 118, no. 4 (1998), pp. 543-545. This is a collection of works by Matsyendra that was found in the library of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine (London). Only 20 of 55 chapters are published in this book. Mastsyendra heard dialogues between Shiva and Parvati while in the belly of a huge fish.
