Utpaladeva on the power of action : a first edition, annotated translation, and study of Īśvarapratyabhijñavivṛti, chapter 2.1 / by Isabelle Ratié.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratié, Isabelle, author, translator.

Contributor:

Utpala, active 900-950.

Series:

Harvard oriental series ; v. 96.

Harvard oriental series ; volume ninety-six

Language:

English

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Utpala, active 900-950.

Kashmir Śaivism--Doctrines.

Kashmir Śaivism.

Utpala, active 900-950--Criticism and interpretation.

Utpala.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 395 pages ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Department of South Asian Studies, 2021.

Language Note:

Translation from Sanskrit with annotations and criticism in English.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 On the discovery of the fragments of Utpaladeva's Isvarapratyabhijnavivrti

1. The Pratyabhijna corpus

2. The justification for the treatise's different textual levels and the Vivrti's goal

3. The search for the Vivrti and the discovery of the Delhi codex unicus

4. The discovery of fragments in marginal annotations

-and the lengthiest fragment known to date

5. The marginalization of Utpaladeva's magnum opus

6. The importance of the fragments for the assessment of Utpaladeva's and Abhinavagupta's philosophical contributions

ch. 2 The manuscript sources used for this edition

1. Three distinct sets of annotations and a jigsaw puzzle

2. Why we cannot dispense with annotations in IPV and Vrtti manuscripts

3. The obstacles to the determination of the annotations' genealogy

4. The relationship between the Vrtti annotated manuscripts

5. The relationship between the IPVV manuscripts

6. The relationship between the IPV manuscripts

7. What can be said for now of the annotations' genealogy and date(s)

8. Description of the IPVV annotated manuscripts used for this edition

9. Description of the IPV annotated manuscripts used for this edition

10. Description of the Vrtti annotated manuscripts used for this edition

ch. 3 The philosophical context: Utpaladeva's demonstration of the self and his absolute idealism

1. Utpaladeva's goal in the Pratyabhijna treatise

2. Utpaladeva's demonstration of the existence of the self (atman)

3. Utpaladeva's demonstration of his nondualism (isvaradvayavdda)

ch. 4 The Buddhist objection against action and its refutation (IPK 2.1.1)

1. The Buddhist criticism of action

2. Utpaladeva's claim that this criticism is already refuted

3. Action as the core of all conscious events: on prakasa and vimarsa in Saiva nondualism

4. The Vaisesikas' contention that action has no unity of its own and the element of contradiction within all perceived actions

ch. 5 The crux of Chapter 2.1: the problem of sequence (IPK 2.1.2)

1. How can action belong to the ultimate consciousness if it involves sequence?

2. The gist of Utpaladeva's response: sequence is not the essence of action

3. The "devouring of time" (kalagrasa)

4. The identity of the Lord's action with that of individuals, and the ethical consequences of this principle

ch. 6 The nature of time (IPK 2.1.3)

1. The first definition mentioned by Utpaladeva: time is nothing but actions

2. Utpaladeva's goal in IPK 2.1.3: showing that time is only the sequence involved in ordinary actions

3. Two understandings of time as a cause in the Vaisesika

4. Utpaladeva's criticism of the first understanding: why time cannot be certain actions used to measure others

5. Utpaladeva's refutation of the second understanding: why time cannot be this or that auxiliary cause

6. Why time is not a distinct substance: Utpaladeva's main divergence with the Vaisesika

ch. 7 Sequence as the result of the ultimate consciousness's will (IPK 2.1.4)

1. The point of the verse: showing that sequence rests on the Lord's will

2. Sequence, the incompatibility of phenomena, and consciousness's freedom

3. Abhinavagupta's emphasis on Utpaladeva's debt to Bhartrhari as regards time

4. Utpaladeva's distinction between exclusive difference and variety

5. Utpaladeva's assertion that this distinction is accepted by the Buddhists and Bhartrhari's followers

6. The objective entities in which sequence is found are mere manifestations of consciousness

ch. 8 The definition of spatial and temporal sequence (IPK 2.1.5)

1. Space and time result from the variety of material shapes and actions

2. The paradox of action

3. Spatial sequence and the issue of sound (sabda)

4. A Vaisesika objection: spatial sequence cannot result from a difference between material shapes

5. Temporal sequence only concerns conscious beings but is also projected onto insentient entities

6. An object regarded as one has no spatial sequence

7. Action, the six modifications in the process of becoming (bhavavikara), and temporal sequence

8. Action, time and recognition

9. The limited subject and the awareness of present, past and future

10. Time and space only make sense in an idealistic system

11. The Buddhist reduction of time and its criticism: Utpaladeva's use of the satkaryavada controversy

12. The issue of the yogic perception of past and future events

ch. 9 The limited realm of temporal and spatial sequence (IPK 2.1.6

7)

1. Why there is temporal sequence for limited subjects

2. Why there is no temporal sequence for the ultimate consciousness: the lost passage on the meaning of sakrt

3. Why even the ultimate consciousness's objects have no temporal sequence: objectivity at the levels of Sadasiva and Isvara

4. Spatial sequence too only exists for limited subjects (IPK 2.1.7)

ch. 10 Space, time and the ultimate consciousness's creative power (IPK 2.1.8)

1. Equating sequential manifestation with the nonsequential action of consciousness

2. The allusion to aesthetic wonder in the lost beginning of the Vivrti on IPK 2.1.8

3. The gist of the verse according to Abhinavagupta: will (iccha) as the core of action

4. The power of action as the (great) universal of Being

5. The power of great creation (mahasrstisakti) and the cosmic functions of Rudra, Brahma and Visnu

6. The cosmic creation does not conceal the true nature of the ultimate consciousness

ch. 11 Isvarapratyabhijnavivrti, Chapter 2.1: Translation

IPK 2.1.1

IPK 2.1.2

IPK 2.1.3

IPK 2.1.4

IPK 2.1.5

IPK 2.1.6

IPK 2.1.7

IPK 2.1.8

ch. 12 Isvarapratyabhijnavivrti, Chapter 2.1: Edition

Preliminary remarks

Abbreviations

Text

Bibliography

1. Primary sources: manuscripts

2. Primary sources: editions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Utpala, active 900-950. Īśvarapratyabhijñavivṛti. Selections. Englilsh.

ISBN:

0674270819

9780674270817

OCLC:

1266217969

Publisher Number:

99988667291