[Advaita-l] Paramaartha-Saara classes

[Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan]

There are 2 paramArthasAra-s - one is Kashmiri shaivite and the other is
advaitic.

S S Suryananasatri’s work:
https://archive.org/details/TheParamarthasaraOfAdiSesa_201705/mode/1up

Ramakrishnan

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2025, Jaishankar Narayanan via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > This text is also referenced in Vidyaranya's Jeevanmukti Viveka, where it
> > is called Aaryaa-panchaasheeti (85 verses in Aarya chandas / metre).
> > Abhinava Gupta who is a great acharya of Kashmiri Shaiva Darshana adapted
> > this text, and expanded it, while retaining the original title, to form a
> > manual of the Pratyabhijna Shaiva marga. You can read this text at
> >
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_major_works/paramArthasAraAdishesha.html
>
> Jaishankarji this is very interesting.  Do you know exactly where in
> Jivanmuktiviveka this is quoted?  I was not able to find it under either
> name after a quick glance.
>
> I was also under the impression that paramarthasara is a Kashmiri Shaiva
> work not an Advaita one.  Mind you, amongst all the darshanas,
> pratyabhijna is probably closest to Advaita Vedanta.  The primary
> differences are that they believe the supreme being (Paramashiva) is a
> karta while Brahman is not and it is based on Agamas and Tantras rather
> than Vedas,
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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