Para-trisika-Vivarana
by Jaideva Singh

The paratrisika (or Paratrimsika) is a short Tantra which has been held in the highest esteem by kashmir Saivism or Trika. Abhinavagupta displays here his great exegetical genius and presents a penetrating metaphysics of language, of the Word (vak) and its various stages in relation to consciousness. His language reflects in a luminous fashion the mystical experience contained in this text.

The last six years of Thakur Jaideva Singh's life were devoted to the study of the Paratrisika Vibarana of Abhinavagupta with that full concentration of which he was still capable at the ripe age of 93. His final work is captured here.