Gitartha Samgraha (critical Study)
by Partha Sarathi Sil | 2020 | 34,788 words
This page relates ‘Appendix: List of Technical Terms of Kashmir Shaivism’ of the study on Abhinavagupta’s Gitartha Samgraha commentary on the Bhagavad Gita: one of the core texts of Indian Philosophy. The Gitartha Sangraha is written in the light of Kashmir Shaivism and brings to Shaiva metaphysics and Yoga integrated in the Bhagavadgita. This study deals with Abhinava’s vision about the purpose of human existence and the accomplishment of salvation (i.e., self-realisation).
Appendix: List of Technical Terms of Kashmir Śaivism
[Full title: Appendix: List of Technical Terms of Kashmir Śaivism present in the Gītārthasaṅgraha]
| Terms | Meaning |
| Abhāsa | Self manifestation |
| Adhva | Order of level of manifestation in creation |
| Aham | Self experience as pure ‘I’ |
| Aiśvarya | Self experience |
| Ānanda śakti | Divine śakti in the aspect of delight |
| āṇavamala | Defilement in the form of self-contraction |
| Anugraha | Divine Grace |
| Anuttara | The Absolute |
| Bindu | Divine Śakti in a potential form |
| cidaṇu | Spirit in the form monadic Pure consciousness |
| Cit-śakti | Divine Śakti in the form of pure illumination |
| Citi | Pure Illumination of consciousness |
| Dīkṣā | Initiation |
| Guru | Spiritual leader who acts as the medium for the transformation of divine grace |
| Icchā | Divine will |
| Icchā śakti | Divine śakti in the aspect of divine will |
| Idam | Universe symbolised as the pure object on the pure order |
| Indriya | Sense organ |
| Kalā | An aspect of Divine Śakti, one of the five kañcukas causing limited authorship |
| Kāla | Time, on of the five kañcukas causing confinement of the individual soul to time |
| Kañcuka | Sheath for self-concealment |
| Kārma mala | Defilement in the form of residual impressions of past deeds |
| Kriyā-śakti | Divine Śakti in the aspect of action |
| Mahāmāya | Divine power operating on the level of pure order |
| Mala | Defilement |
| maṇḍala | Construction of cosmic symbols |
| Māyīya-mala | Defilement caused by Māya and its five Kañcukās |
| Mudrā | Making proper gestures |
| Nigraha | Self limitation |
| nimeṣa | Closing up |
| Nyāsa | Assignment of powerful sounds or symbols of the body |
| Parama-Śiva | Supreme Śiva who is the supreme reality |
| Parāmarśa | Self-experience |
| Parameśvara | Supreme Lord |
| Parapramātā | Supreme Experiencer |
| Pāśa | Fetter or bond |
| Paśu | Fettered being |
| Paśu pramātā | Limited experiencer |
| pauruṣa-ajñāna | Spiritual knowledge consequent on the destruction of self limitation |
| Prakāśa | Pure illumination |
| Pralaya | Cosmic dissolution |
| Pralayakāla | A type of disembodied soul |
| Pūrṇāhamtā | Supreme self experience as the pure ‘I’ on the highest level |
| Pūrṇatva | Fullness |
| Rāga | One of the five sheaths causing the development of attachment in the spiritual monad |
| Sakala | Embodied soul |
| Śaktipāda | Descent of divine grace |
| saṃskāra | Residual impression |
| saṃvid | Supreme experiencing principle |
| Saṅkalpa | Devine resolve |
| Saṅkoca | Self contraction |
| Śivatva | The highest state of realisation; self experience as Śiva |
| Śuddha vikalpa | Pure experience |
| Śunya | Cosmic void |
| Tattva | A level of creation |
| unmeṣa | Opening out |
| Upāya | Way of self realisation |
| Vāk | Primordial word |
| Varṇa | Letter symbolising different aspects of divine Śakti |
| Vijñānākala | Divine power |
| Vikalpa | Concept |
| Vimarśa | Pure consciousness in the aspect of dynamism |