Ancient · Sanskrit
Paryantapañcāśikā
Paryantapañcāśikā, a Sanskrit philosophical text by Abhinavagupta, with transliteration and Thothica's English translation from the GRETIL source text.
chapters
8 chapters- 01Opening invocationprose
- 02Bhairava as sole reality; the supreme goal (paryanta)prose
- 03Self-reflection of the Lord and his descent through the levels; the six pathsprose
- 04Śāmbhava creation, contraction of Śakti, and the bound soul (paśu)prose
- 05Teaching to the disciple: the means that is no-means (anupāya)prose
- 06The Anuttara, the visarga, and the union (yāmala) of Śiva and Śaktiprose
- 07The four levels of Speech (parā, paśyantī, madhyamā, vaikharī)prose
- 08Conclusion, praise of the gurus, and colophonprose
in the atlas
fully mappedFigures— 10 of 12
Abhinavagupta · Bhairava · Bhairavī · Gaṇapati · Khecarī · Māheśvarī · Parā (Kālakarṣiṇī) · The disciple ('my child') · Triśaṅku · Vyomeśvarī
Ideas— 10 of 24
Ahaṃ · Anupāya · Anuttara · Bondage and liberation · Contracting states of knowership · Icchā-jñāna-kriyā · Kalā and vidyā · Kṣobha · Mātṛ-meya · Paryanta
Places— 1
Groups— 2
The gurus of old / teacher lineage · The presiding goddesses of the phonematic classes
Objects— 1
Mantras and mudrās
3 citations · 10 themes · 40 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.
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