The Heart of the Yogini

Under the category of abhiyuktavachana words of the authorized/trusted authorities, the Dipika cites passages from Shivananda’s Subhagodaya, Subhagodayavasana, and Saubhagya Hridaya Stotra, as well as from the Prapanchasara, Bhatta Gangadhara, Kularnava, Ambastava, Kavyaprakasha, Parapanchashika, the Nityashodashikarnava (as accepted by Bhaskararaya), and the Udayakapaddhati. At the end of the fifth patala of the Nityashodashikarnava, Bhaskararaya inserts and explains a few additional verses. We have provided notes on such passages. Just like these sayings, Amritananda also considers the sayings from the Kularnava and Parapanchashika to be abhiyukta sayings. It is clear that he did not take these sayings from the Kularnava Tantra directly, but from a work composed by an abhiyukta authorized author. This also makes it clear that the author of the Parapanchashika is a person named Adyanatha, not Shiva. One verse of the Parapanchashika cited here (p. 333) is not found in any manuscript of the Parapanchashika.

By the term "as stated by us" (asmadukta), Amritananda has cited his own works: Saubhagya-Subhagodaya, Chidvilasastava, and Tattvavimarshini. The Nityashodashikarnava is cited here under the names Agamashastra and Chatushatishastra. Under the name "other Agama," the author of the Dipika uses the Sharadatilaka in one place (p. 329). It is not known what other Agama he refers to elsewhere. Under the name "other Tantras" (tantrantara), he has cited passages from the Kusumanjalikarika, Nyayabhashya, Dasharupaka, Brahmasiddhi, Sharadatilaka, grammatical treatises, and the Sarvamangalashastra. The citation from the Nyayabhashya is cited four times here. The citation on p. 332 is somewhat long, and the subsequent portion is not available there. Two passages from the Sharadatilaka are cited here. This indicates that the Sharadatilaka had already been composed before Amritananda. It also clarifies that because Amritananda cites the Sharadatilaka under the name "other Agama" or "other Tantra," it cannot be a text of the Shrishastra, as some people believe. Two passages under the name Nighantu lexicon are from the Amarakosha. We have not been able to trace the source of the remaining one. We have also been unsuccessful in locating the sources of some other citations.

We have not been able to find the origin of the "authoritative sayings" (pramanavachana), but under the category of "authenticated sayings" (pramanikavachana), verses from Shivananda's Saubhagya Hridaya Stotra, Stotraveli, the Nityashodashikarnava (as accepted by Bhaskararaya), the Kularnava, and the Jnakarika are cited. The passage from the Stotraveli was not found in Bhatta Utpala’s Shivastotraveli. As for the Nityashodashikarnava (as accepted by Bhaskararaya) and the Kularnava, we have already written about them above. Our assumption is that these sayings...

1. Dr. Madhu Khanna of Delhi has recently received a doctorate degree from Oxford University for her research work on these three works of Shivananda.
2. See the note on p. 46 of the introduction to the Luptagamasangraha, Part 2.