पञ्चावरणस्तव: The Pancavaranastava of Aghorasivacarya: (A twelfth-century South Indian Prescription for the Visualisation of Sadasiva and his retinue)
by Editors: Dominic Goodall, Nibedita Rout, R. Sathyanarayanan, S.A.S. Sarma, T. Ganesan, S. Sambandhaśivācārya
Author : Editors: Dominic Goodall, Nibedita Rout, R. Sathyanarayanan, S.A.S. Sarma, T. Ganesan, S. Sambandhaśivācārya
Publisher : Institut Francais De Pondichery
Language : Sanskrit and English
ISBN : 9788184701333
Item Code : IFP033
Pages : 262
Weight : 600 GM
Dimensions : 25 X 17 CM
Edition : 2024
Binding : PAPEBACK
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This volume presents a critical edition of a once celebrated liturgical hymn in one hundred verses by Aghoraśiva. That celebrated twelfth-century theologian of Chidambaram is known both for his commentaries and for his ritual manuals: the Mṛgendrapaddhati and the Kriyākramadyotikā. The latter, completed in 1157 AD, remains one of the principal authorities for the performance of ritual in South Indian Śaiva temples today. In his Pañcāvaraṇ̣astava, “Praise of the Five Circuits”, Aghoraśiva shows how the central deity of the Śaiva Siddhānta should be visualised in worship. The initiate should see the benign, white, consortless, five-faced and ten-armed Sadāśiva enthroned on an eight-petalled lotus. Arranged around him in five concentric rings are anthropomorphic forms of the 11 mantras that are his heads and body-parts, then 8 souls that administer the universe, then 8 members of his family, the 10 divinities that protect the directions, and finally the anthropomorphised weapons of those protectors. Annotation and a selection of photographs accompany the text.
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