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Article: Le Tantra de Svayambhu, vidyapada, avec le commentaire de Sadyojyoti: Edition et traduction.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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The Svayambhuvasutrasamgraha (SvSS) is an alternative title for a text elsewhere known as Svayambhuvagama. It is listed as one of the 28 "classical" agamas of Saivism, but so far it has been little noticed by scholars, despite the increased effort of recent years to study and interpret the authoritative literature of Saivism. The present book is, to my knowledge, the first modern scholarly study on (part of) this text. The SvSS, at least the part edited here, is a text of good quality written in correct Sanskrit and good style. It has exerted some influence, as appears from the commentary devoted to it by Sadyojyoti, who is one of the earliest Saiva theoreticians known by ...