Digital Ebook (PDF) - The Sanskrit Text with the 'Nirakshira-viveka' Hindi Commentary (Bhashya)
Text / Tradition: Śrī Mālinīvijayottara Tantram (the foremost Tantra of the Trika / Kashmir Shaiva tradition) | 'Nirakshira-viveka' Hindi commentary (bhashya) by Dr. Paramahamsa Mishra 'Hansa' | With an introduction by Kulapati Prof. Rammurti Sharma | Yogatantra-Granthamala 31, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, 2001
Key Features
The Shri Malini Vijayottara Tantram is among the most important and revered scriptures in the entire tradition of Kashmir Shaivism — regarded by the great master Abhinavagupta himself as the most authoritative of all the non-dual Bhairava Tantras, the very foundation upon which the Trika system rests. This edition presents the Sanskrit text together with the illuminating 'Nirakshira-viveka' Hindi commentary of Dr. Paramahamsa Mishra 'Hansa', graced by an introduction from Kulapati Prof. Rammurti Sharma, making this cornerstone of Shaiva philosophy accessible to the modern Sanskrit and Hindi reader.
Likely composed in Kashmir between the ninth and tenth centuries CE, during a golden age of intense philosophical and spiritual activity in the Valley, the Malinivijayottara occupies a place of singular authority. It was upon this Tantra that Abhinavagupta built his monumental Tantraloka — his greatest work is, in essence, an extended commentary and elucidation of the teachings of the Malinivijayottara, in which he interprets nearly every key principle of Shaiva theology in its light. To study this text is thus to touch the living root of the entire non-dual Shaiva tradition.
Unlike the brief contemplative approach of works such as the Vijnana Bhairava, the Malinivijayottara offers a comprehensive and integrated system, weaving together metaphysics, ritual, yoga, and the mysteries of mantra and the Sanskrit alphabet (the mālinī, the "garland" of letters from which the Tantra takes its name). It expounds the tattvas or categories of reality, the stages of the yogic path, the nature of liberation, and the profound doctrine of self-recognition that flowered into the Pratyabhijna school — the recognition that one's own true Self is none other than Shiva, the supreme, all-encompassing consciousness.
Framed as the sacred knowledge that flowed from the lotus-mouth of Parameshvara upon Mount Kailasa and was transmitted through Kumara Karttikeya to the sages, the Malinivijayottara carries the authority of the very source of the tradition. For the student of Kashmir Shaivism, the practitioner of Trika yoga and meditation, and the scholar of Sanskrit tantric philosophy, this is an indispensable and foundational scripture — presented here in Sanskrit with a lucid Hindi commentary in a single volume.
Ebook Details
- Format: PDF (digital download)
- Language: Sanskrit text with Hindi commentary
- Text: Śrī Mālinīvijayottara Tantram (root scripture of the Trika / Kashmir Shaiva tradition)
- Commentary: 'Nirakshira-viveka' Hindi bhashya by Dr. Paramahamsa Mishra 'Hansa', with an introduction by Prof. Rammurti Sharma
- Publisher: Yogatantra-Granthamala 31, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi (2001)
- Content: Complete Sanskrit verses with detailed Hindi exposition and scholarly introduction, faithfully reproduced from the printed edition
- Ideal For: Students and practitioners of Kashmir Shaivism and Trika yoga, readers of Abhinavagupta and the Tantraloka, scholars of Sanskrit tantric and Shaiva philosophy, and serious seekers of non-dual wisdom
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The foundational scripture of Kashmir Shaivism in a single download — the Sanskrit Malinivijayottara Tantra with a lucid Hindi commentary, the very text Abhinavagupta hailed as supreme and made the basis of his Tantraloka, bringing the living root of the Trika tradition and its non-dual wisdom to the modern reader and scholar.
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