By Moti Lal Pandit
ISBN-10: 8185217017
ISBN-13: 9788185217017
The significance of Kashmir Saivism lies within the undeniable fact that an autonomous college of Saivism, with its personal particular ethos and orientation, emerged from the soil of Kashmir through the 8th century of our period, which until eventually the top of the 12th century made nice strides either philosophically and theologically. the kind of Saivism that emerged through the 8th century is deeply rooted within the non secular outlook which has served because the substratum for the flowering of varied faculties of Saivism, and which finally terminated within the upward push of such philosophical colleges because the Spanda and the Pratyabhijna.
The writer of the booklet has made each try at explaining as comprehensively as attainable the advanced theoretical considering the Trika. The Trika, even if non-dualistic in orientation, doesn't obliterate the life of the individual, and that's why it accepts fact as being of the character of I-consciousness. in accordance with Trika, truth is either prakasa and vimarsa, and so the realm we are living in is a precise happen situation of absolutely the. additionally its theology of divine kenosis discloses that God isn't really distant from us, yet as gentle of recognition constitutes our crucial nature.
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Pp. 1-2. CHAPTER III Spandasastra of Bhatta Kallata Bhalta Kalla�a is the most prominent or' all the early authors of Kashmir Saivism. ' Trlka-iigamas, the scriptural works of the Saivism o f Tryam baka's school, were revealed to its still earlier teachers. Sivasiltra, a brief work in aphoristic style, is also counted among Ilgamas. It was revealed to Vasugupta, a teacher of the school of Tryambaka who may have probably belonged to the family of Atrigupta. No other work from his pen bas so far been discovered.
S. , p. 1. S. Pro last paac. a 21 because he betrays his staunch faith in Pallcaratra system and appears to be trying his best to elevate it to the level of spanda lastra. emaraja who ascribed the authorship of Spandakiirika to Vasugupta. In order to put weight to his opinion, he explained the word " gurubharatl" as the great Parii-viI�i. Such an explanation is highly far fetched in character. It appears that a controversy about the authorship of Spandakiirlkii had al ready risen some time before Ksemaraja started to write.
Sitika\l�a refers thus to Soma in his commentary on the B4/ahodhlnf of Jagaddhara Bha !! a . There is a reference in the Rajatarangini about the shrine 'Some§vara', having been established by Somananda in the outskirts of the city. Most of the Saiva phil osophers of Kash mir were, like ancient Vedic R�is, householders following Brahmanic ideals. Somananda also was a householder l i ke his five immediate forefathers. nd Kula systems were immenI. D. VII, 109 2. D. /II, I 9. '0 121. 28 History of Kashmir Salvlsm sely great, as he has been very highly praised on tbat account by great philosophers like Abhinavagupta.
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