All Kashmir Shaivism Sutras

The Shiva Sutras and the Spanda Karikas are the founding scriptural pair of the Spanda tradition within Kashmir Shaivism, the umbrella term for the non-dual Shaiva-Shakta tantric and monistic exegetical literature that developed in Kashmir after the ninth century CE. Both texts are attributed to the ninth-century teacher Vasugupta, with the Spanda Karikas sometimes instead credited to his student Kallata, and both read Shakti as spanda, the cosmic pulsation or divine vibration that is Shiva's own active and creative energy: the Shiva Sutras states this teaching in seventy-seven terse aphorisms organized in three sections, while the Spanda Karikas restates and systematizes it in roughly fifty verses. Scholarship treats the pair together as the textual core of the Spanda system, distinct from the later Pratyabhijna philosophy of Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta that grew alongside it within the wider Trika school. This group gathers this atlas's two Sutras-subcategory Kashmir Shaivism texts, each independently identified by its own live cited description as belonging to this tradition.