Reference
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The texts behind these pages, their principal editions, and where to read further.
These are the texts behind these pages, with the editions in which they are usually read.
The svara texts
- Śiva Svarodayaशिवस्वरोदय
- 395 ślokas, a dialogue of Śiva and Pārvatī. The root text of svara-śāstra, covering the channels, the five tattvas, application to every ordinary decision, and the omens of death.
- Svara Cintāmaṇiस्वरचिन्तामणि
- Twenty-four chapters of applied svara — a practitioner's casebook rather than a revealed text. Verse numbering restarts in each chapter, so a verse is identified by chapter and number together.
- Narpati Jayacaryā Svarodayaनरपतिजयचर्या
- Composed by Śrī Narapati, son of Nṛdeva, at the Paramāra capital Dhārā in Mālava under Ajayapāla. The great medieval encyclopedia of svara applied to journey, war and question; commented on by the Subodhinī and by Harivaṃśa's Jayalakṣmī.
The Śaiva Āgama and Bhairava tantras
- Rudrayāmala Uttara Tantraरुद्रयामल
- A Yāmala of the Vidyāpīṭha; mantra, the subtle body, kuṇḍalinī and yoga. Named by the Vijñāna Bhairava as its source.
- Netra Tantraनेत्रतन्त्र
- The Mṛtyujit — Amṛteśa, protection and the conquest of death. Published in the Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies with Kṣemarāja's Netroddyota.
- Svacchanda Tantraस्वच्छन्दतन्त्र
- The principal Mantrapīṭha scripture, deity Svacchandabhairava. KSTS, with Kṣemarāja's Uddyota.
- Mālinīvijayottaraमालिनीविजयोत्तर
- The root scripture of the Trika: the three goddesses, the mālinī alphabet, the four upāyas. KSTS vol. XXXVII, 1922.
- Brahmayāmala · Picumataब्रह्मयामल
- Among the earliest surviving Bhairava tantras; the cult of Caṇḍā Kāpālinī and the yoginīs. Individual paṭalas critically edited; no complete edition.
The Kashmirian exegesis
- Śiva Sūtraशिवसूत्र
- 77 sūtras revealed to Vasugupta, in three unmeṣas. Read with Kṣemarāja's Vimarśinī.
- Spanda Kārikāस्पन्दकारिका
- The doctrine of the pulse, attributed to Vasugupta or to his pupil Kallaṭa. With the Nirṇaya and Sandoha of Kṣemarāja.
- Vijñāna Bhairavaविज्ञानभैरव
- 112 dhāraṇās framed by the Devī's question and Bhairava's refusal of every form. With Kṣemarāja's partial commentary and Śivopādhyāya's Vivṛti.
- Tantrālokaतन्त्रालोक
- Abhinavagupta's thirty-seven chapters — the summation of the Trika, presented as an unfolding of the Mālinīvijayottara. With Jayaratha's Viveka. Twelve volumes in KSTS.
- Tantrasāraतन्त्रसार
- Abhinavagupta's own prose abridgement of the Tantrāloka, and the usual way in.
- Pratyabhijñāhṛdayaप्रत्यभिज्ञाहृदय
- Kṣemarāja's twenty sūtras with his own commentary — the shortest complete statement of the Recognition doctrine.
- Paramārthasāraपरमार्थसार
- Abhinavagupta's hundred verses on the essence, with Yogarāja's commentary.
Where these are published
The Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies, issued from Srinagar between 1911 and 1947 under Mukunda Rāma Śāstrī, J. C. Chatterji, Madhusūdan Kaul Śāstrī and others, remains the foundation for almost everything in Kashmir Śaivism. Its volumes carry the Sanskrit with the classical commentaries and are long out of copyright; scanned sets are freely available, including through the eGangotri Digital Preservation Trust.
For the Siddhānta Āgamas, the editions of the Institut Français de Pondichéry are the standard scholarly texts. For the Pāñcarātra, the Adyar Library and the Rāmānuja Research Society editions.