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Jayaratha

Jayaratha

1225 CE · Kashmir Valley

c. late 12th–early 13th c. CE (fl. c. 1225 CE)

Jayaratha (fl. early 13th c. CE) is the indispensable later commentator of the Trika tradition. His Tantrāloka-viveka, a learned commentary on Abhinavagupta's encyclopedic Tantrāloka (composed roughly two centuries earlier), is essential for understanding that difficult text and is itself a rich source for the names, lineages, and lost works of Kashmir Shaivism. Through his commentary much of what is known of the tradition's internal history survives. He also commented on other Śaiva works. He was a Kashmiri who recorded his own teacher-lineage in his writings, providing useful chronological detail.

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Kashmir Valley

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Traditional birthplace of Jayaratha.

About Kashmir Valley

The Kashmir Valley, in the present-day Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, is a Himalayan basin drained by the Jhelum River and centred on Srinagar. From roughly the 9th to the 12th centuries it was the homeland of the non-dual Shaiva tradition known as Kashmir Shaivism, whose exegetes—among them Somanānda, Utpaladeva, Kṣemarāja, and the commentator Jayaratha—were active here.

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