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Nisvasamukhatattvasamhita: A Preface to the Earliest Surviving Saiva Tantra (on non-Tantric Saivism at the Dawn of the Mantramarga) Critical Edition, with Introduction & Annotated Translation and an Appendix containing Sivadharmasangraha 5–9 (Sanskrit and English)
Author
Edited by Kafle, Nirajan with a foreword by Dominic Goodall
Specifications
  • ISBN 13 : 9788184702378
  • year : 2020
  • language : Sanskrit and English
  • binding : Softcover
Description
This volume presents the first edition, along with an English translation, of a Sanskrit work of perhaps the seventh century surviving in a single ninth-century Nepalese witness: the Niśvāsamukhatattvasaṃhitā. It would be difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of this primary source for the history of the Śaiva religions. Ostensibly an introduction to the Niśvāsamukhatattvasaṃhitā, it purports to sketch the religious context in which the Mantramārga emerged. In so doing, it provides invaluable help in mapping the contours of the relations between four different traditions of early Śaivism, namely: 1) that of the Pāñcārthika Pāśupatas, 2) that of the Lākulas (here lokātīta), 3) the the Mantramārga and 4) pre-Mantramārga