Mahanaya
महानय mahānaya'The Great Way', one of the Krama tradition's own names for itself, and the name behind its central texts, the Mahanayaprakasha. Mankha's Shrikanthacharita already speaks of the knowers of the Mahanaya.
Where this term appears
- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
Mahartha , the Great Meaning. Mahanaya , the Great Way.
- The Kashmir Foundation Treatise
The Pratyabhijna doctrine, the Spanda doctrine, the Trika synthesis, the Krama tradition’s Mahanaya literature, all available to any serious student in 2026.