The Vision of Śiva

शिवदृष्टि

Śivadṛṣṭi

by Somānanda

The Śivadṛṣṭi ("The Vision of Śiva") of Somānanda (c. 875–925 CE) is the foundational philosophical treatise of the Pratyabhijñā school of non-dual Kashmir Śaivism and the root text upon which his pupil Utpaladeva built the Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā. It is transmitted in seven āhnikas (chapters). This file ingests ONLY Somānanda's mūla kārikās, verbatim from the Muktabodha e-text (KSTS vol. 54); Utpaladeva's prose Vṛtti — which interleaves the mūla and quotes many other verses — is reserved for the sibling slug 'sivadrsti-vrtti'. Per-āhnika mūla counts: 49, 90, 99, 124, 110, 126, 122 (total 720).