Parātrīśikā

परात्रिंशिका

Parātriṃśikā

The Parātrīśikā (also transmitted as Parātriṃśikā, "the Thirty Verses on the Supreme") is a short Trika tantra of 36 verses, framed as a dialogue between the Goddess and Bhairava and traditionally regarded as the essence of the Rudrayāmala Tantra (its closing verse says "ity etad rudrayāmalam"). It is the root text of Abhinavagupta's Parātrīśikā-Vivaraṇa and Laghuvṛtti commentaries; the sibling slug paratrisika-vivarana is reserved for the Vivaraṇa. This file ingests the mūla verses only, verbatim from GRETIL's e-text; two legacy-encoding artifacts in the upstream transcription (verse 19 "ma.ṅdalo", verse 29 "stha.ṅdilaṃ") are preserved as-is rather than emended.