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The ubiquitous Śiva : Somānanda's Śivadr̥ṣṭi and his tantric interlocutors / John Nemec.
Van Pelt Library BL1281.1545 .N46 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nemec, John.
- Series:
- AAR religion in translation
- Language:
- English
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Kashmir Śaivism--Doctrines.
- Kashmir Śaivism.
- Somānanda. Śivadr̥ṣṭi.
- Somānanda.
- Physical Description:
- x, 436 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- In English and Sanskrit (romanized); includes translations from Sanskrit.
- Summary:
- John Nemec offers a fascinating analysis of the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or "Recognition" School of Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. Following his extended introduction he also provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated translation of a large portion of the first Pratyabhijna text ever composed: the Sivadrsti of Somananda.
- Nemec introduces the text by arguing that the author presents a unique form of nondualism, a strict pantheism that declares all beings and entities found in the universe to be fully identical with the active and willful god Siva. This theological and philosophical view stands in contrast to the panentheism of both his disciple and commentator, Utpaladeva, and the very few other Saiva tantric commentaries that were extant in the author's day. Nemec also argues that the text was written for the author's fellow tantric initiates, not for a wider audience.
- Included in the volume is a critical edition and annotated translation of the first three (of seven) chapters of the text in which Somananda formulates his arguments against opposing tantric authors and schools of thought. A full translation of Utpaladeva's commentary on the same chapters is also included. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Introduction to the Translation
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 About This Book 3
- Somananda's Works and His Biography 12
- 3 The Author and His Works 12
- 4 Somananda's Biography and Autobiography 19
- The Author's Thought and the Intellectual History of the Pratyabhijña 25
- 5 Somananda's "Settled Opinion" (siddhanta) 25
- 6 Divergences Between the Writings of Somananda and Utpaladeva 31
- Divergences Between the Sivadrsti and the Isvarapratyabhijña-karikas and-vrtti 31
- Continuities and Divergences Between the Sivadrsti and the Sivadrstivrtti 35
- 7 The Use of Trika and Technical Terminology in the Sivadrsti 39
- 8 The Influence of the Trika VBh on the Sivadrsti 44
- Somananda's Tantric Interlocutors, and the Philosophy of the Grammarians 51
- 9 The Tantric Post-Scriptural Schools and Authors Known to Somananda 51
- 10 The Sivadrsti and the Spanda School 53
- 11 Krama Influences on the Sivadrsti 56
- 12 Somananda and the Saiva Siddhanta 58
- 13 The Sivadrsti and the Philosophy of the Grammarians 59
- Somananda's Arguments Against the Grammarians' Pasyanti 62
- Bhartrhari's Avidya and Utpaladeva's Abhedakhyati 64
- On What Differentiates the Two Schools 66
- 14 Bhatta Pradyumna and His Tattvagarbhastotra 67
- Known and Heretofore Unidentified Passages of the Tattvagarbhastotra 69
- Bhatta Pradyumna as Pkurvapaksin, and Somananda's Arguments Against the Saktas 72
- 15 Conclusions: Somananda's Sivadrsti and the Emergence of the Pratyabhijña 76
- About the Edition and the Translation 79
- 16 The Manuscripts of the Sivadrsti 79
- Manuscripts Consulted 79
- Other Sivadrsti Manuscripts 81
- 17 About the Edition 82
- The Relationship of the Manuscripts 82
- Conventions of the Edition 90
- 18 About the Translation 91
- Part II The Translation
- Chapter One of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti: Siva and His Powers 99
- Chapter Two of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti: The Arguments against the Grammarians 146
- Chapter Three of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti: The Arguments against the Saktas 211
- Part III The Edition
- Chapter One of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti 275
- Chapter Two of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti 304
- Chapter Three of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti 350.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contains:
- Somānanda. Śivadr̥ṣṭi. English. Selections.
- Somānanda. Śivadr̥ṣṭi. Sanskrit. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780199795451
- 0199795452
- 9780199795468
- 0199795460
- 9780199795543
- 0199795541
- OCLC:
- 671541103
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