Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    Ancient · Sanskrit

    Paryantapañcāśikā

    Abhinavagupta

    Paryantapañcāśikā, a Sanskrit philosophical text by Abhinavagupta, with transliteration and Thothica's English translation from the GRETIL source text.

    Chapters
    8
    Variants
    16
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Opening invocationprose
    2. 02Bhairava as sole reality; the supreme goal (paryanta)prose
    3. 03Self-reflection of the Lord and his descent through the levels; the six pathsprose
    4. 04Śāmbhava creation, contraction of Śakti, and the bound soul (paśu)prose
    5. 05Teaching to the disciple: the means that is no-means (anupāya)prose
    6. 06The Anuttara, the visarga, and the union (yāmala) of Śiva and Śaktiprose
    7. 07The four levels of Speech (parā, paśyantī, madhyamā, vaikharī)prose
    8. 08Conclusion, praise of the gurus, and colophonprose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures11

    Abhinavagupta · Bhairava · Bhairavī · Gaṇapati · Khecarī · Parā (Kālakarṣiṇī) · The disciple ('my child') · Triśaṅku · Vyomeśvarī · Śakti

    Ideas24

    Ahaṃ · Anupāya · Anuttara · Bondage and liberation · Contracting states of knowership · Icchā-jñāna-kriyā · Kalā and vidyā · Kṣobha · Mātṛ-meya · Paryanta

    Places

    Earth

    Groups

    The gurus of old / teacher lineage

    Objects

    Mantras and mudrās

    3 citations · 10 themes · 40 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.