Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2Eliot, Charles
Religion
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
Eliot, Charles
Asia -- Religion; Buddhism; Hinduism
[Footnote 549: It is contained in fourteen śâstras, most of which are
attributed to the four teachers mentioned above.]
[Footnote 550: For the Kashmir school see Barnett in _Muséon_, 1909,
pp. 271-277. _J.R.A.S._ 1910, pp. 707-747. Kashmir Sanskrit series,
particularly vol. II. entitled _Kashmir Śaivism_. The Śiva sûtras and
the commentary Vimar'sinî translated in _Indian Thought_, 1911-12.
Also Srinivasa Iyengar, _Outlines of Indian Philosophy_, pp. 168-175
and _Sarva-darśana-saṅgraha_, chap. VIII.]
[Footnote 551: Among them may be mentioned Kallata, author of
the _Spanda Kârikâs_ and Somânanda of the Śivadṛishti, who
both flourished about 850-900. Utpala, who composed the
Pratyabhijñâ-kârikâs, lived some fifty years later, and in the
eleventh century Abhinava Gupta and Kshemarâja composed numerous
commentaries.]
[Footnote 552: Kashmirian Śaivism is often called Trika, that is
tripartite, because, like other varieties, it treats of three
ultimates _Śiva_, _Śakti_, _Anu_ or _Pati_, _Paśu_, _Pâśa_. But it has
a decided tendency towards monism.]
[Footnote 553: Also called the Śakti or Mâtrikâ.]
[Footnote 554: See _Epig. Carn._ VII. Sk. 114. 19, 20 and _Jour.
Mythic Society_, 1917, pp. 176, 180.]
[Footnote 555: To say nothing of Śivaite temples like the Kailas at
Ellora, the chief doctrines and even the terminology of Śivaite
philosophy are mentioned by Śankara on Ved. Sutras, II. 2. 37.]
[Footnote 556: In the Samyuktavastu, chap. XL. (transl. in _J.A._
1914, II. pp. 534, etc.) the Buddha is represented as saying that
Kashmir is the best land for meditation and leading a religious life.]
[Footnote 557: Chatterji, _Kashmir Śaivism_, p. 11, thinks that
Abhinava Gupta's _Paramârthasâra_, published by Barnett, was an
adaptation of older verses current in India and called the Âdhâra
Kârikâs.]
[Footnote 558: See Thurston, _Castes and Tribes of southern India_,
s.v. vol. IV. pp. 236-291 and _Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency_,
vol. XXIII. article Bijapur, pp. 219-1884.]
[Footnote 559: An inscription found at Ablur in Dharwar also mentions
Ramayya as a champion of Śivaite monotheism. He is perhaps the same as
Channabasava. The Lingâyats maintain that Basava merely revived the
old true religion of Śiva and founded nothing new.]
[Footnote 560: They have also a book called _Prabhuling-lila_, which
is said to teach that the deity ought to live in the believer's soul
as he lives in the lingam, and collections of early Kanarese sermons
which are said to date from the thirteenth century.]
[Footnote 561: The use of the Linga by this sect supports the view
that even in its origin the symbol is not exclusively phallic.]
[Footnote 562: Their creed is said to have been the state religion of
the Wodeyars of Mysore (1399-1600) and of the Nayaks of Keladi, Ikken
or Bednur (1550-1763).]
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