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Title

Authors

• Kṣemarāja, active 11th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969805823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/950472209
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6980582

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Language

Summary

Beginning of a Kashmiri Śaiva Tantra philosophical commentarial work, likely the Spandanirṇaya by Kṣemarāja (disciple of Abhinavagupta), on the concept of internal vibrations (spanda) of the heart and the manifestation of divine powers (śakti). Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Spandanirṇaya supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 12 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Śaivism
• Shaktism
• Tantrism

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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