Sadashiva

It listed twenty-eight Siddhanta tantras, twenty-eight Garuda tantras, twenty Bhuta tantras, twenty-four Dakshina and twenty-four Vama tantras, and sixty-four of what it called the circle of Sadashiva.

The tradition ties the revelation to the five faces of Sadāśiva , the supreme form of Shiva from whose faces the scriptures are said to issue.

It is one of the five faces of Sadāśiva , the five aspects of the supreme Shiva named in the Śaiva tradition: Sadyojāta, Vāmadeva, Aghora, Tatpuruṣa, and Īśāna.

…ve streams of revelation issuing from the mouths of the five faces of Sadāśiva , Shiva in the five-faced form in which he is held to utter scripture.

…iples from matter up to illusion, AU covers those from pure wisdom to Sadāśiva, and the visarga is Śiva.

The five-faced Sadashiva of the later tradition has Tatpurusha in the east almost without exception.

…nderson, on page 670, calls him transitional in type between the calm Sadashiva of the Shaiva Siddhanta, the dualist school of the twenty-eight Agamas, and the gods of the Kapalika mainstream, the skull-bearing…

… god is, in Sanderson's words, "transitional in type between the calm Sadāśiva of the Śaiva Siddhānta and the gods of the Kāpālika mainstream" (1988, p.