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Author:   John Nemec (Assistant Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies, Assistant Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies, University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780199795468

ISBN 10:   0199795460
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   10 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English & Sanskrit

Table of Contents

I. Introduction to the Translation. 1. Introduction 2. About this book Somananda's Works and His Biography 3. The Author and His Works 4. Somananda's Biography and Autobiography The Author's Thought and the Intellectual History of the Pratyabhijña 5. Somananda's ''Settled Opinion'' (siddhanta) 6. Divergences Between the Writings of Somananda and Utpaladeva 7. The Use of Trika and Technical Terminology in the Sivadrsti 8. The Influence of the Trika VBh on the Sivadrsti Somananda's Tantric Interlocutors, and the Philosophy of the Grammarians 9. The Tantric Post-Scriptural Schools and Authors Known to Somananda 10. The Sivadrsti and the Spanda School 11. Krama Influences on the Sivadrsti 12. Somananda and the Saiva Siddhanta 13. The Sivadrsti and the Philosophy of the Grammarians 14. Bhatta Pradyumna and his Tattvagabhastotra 15. Conclusions: Somananda's Sivadrsti and the Emergence of the Pratyabhijña About the Edition and the Translation 16. The Manuscripts of the Sivadrsti 17. About the Edition 18. About the Translation Abbreviations II. The Translation. Chapter One of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrsativrtti: Siva and His Powers Chapter Two of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrsativrtti: The Arguments Against the Grammarians Chapter Three of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrsativrtti: The Arguments Against the Saktas III. The Edition. Critical Edition of Chapter One of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrsativrtti Critical Edition of Chapter Two of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrsativrtti Critical Edition of Chapter Three of the Sivadrsti and Sivadrsativrtti Bibliography

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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

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