Āryadeva
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages · author page · the sources this author draws on
the venerable great master Āryadeva · Āryadevapāda
in the texts
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The attributed author of the Caryāmelāpakapradīpa, named in the closing verse and the work colophon.
// This is the work of the venerable great master Āryadeva.
(The author's closing verse:
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The author of the Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa, who speaks in the first person about examining his own mind and whose authorship is confirmed in the colophon.
cittaviśuddhi}}), whatever happiness I have gained — by [that, and by] establishing the purification of mind, may people be made happy.
— having paid homage to the Great Passion (kāma / viṣaya (desire / sense-objects, enjoyed as antidote by the yogin), Mahārāga), the Lord Padmanarteśvara (tantric form of Avalokiteśvara, the dedicatee deity), I shall here say a little, drawn from the examination of my own mind (svacittapratyavekṣaṇā).
This is the work of the venerable Āryadeva (Āryadevapāda).