Saiddhantika
saiddhāntikaBelonging to the Shaiva Siddhanta, the Veda-congruent, caste-observant and institutionally dominant current of the Mantramarga, as against the non-Saiddhantika Bhairava and Goddess traditions. The sources own pair for the same distinction is samanya and vishesha, general and special.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
… and whose Siddhantasarapaddhati is one of the great codifications of Saiddhantika practice, includes a Sun-worship sequence as a required preliminary to the regular worship of Śiva.
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
On the other side stand the non-Saiddhāntika scriptures, the Bhairava tantras, more monistic, more Śākta, more transgressive, home to the Trika and the Krama and the goddess-centred cults that fed Kashmir Śaivi…
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
That is a Saiddhāntika scheme speaking, and it seats the Siddhānta highest.
- Kubjika and the Paschimamnaya: four origins Lineages
…nly, placing this corpus well downstream of the Niśvāsa and the early Saiddhāntika layer, placing the Tantrasadbhāva before the Kubjikāmata and the Jayadrathayāmala after it, and declines an absolute date in th…
- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
These are the tantras of the left and the Kaula streams, not the Saiddhāntika base.
- Samaya: the fetter and who was spared it Lineages
…ote supports when it records the category as absent from the earliest Saiddhantika scriptures.
- Shaiva death rites: burning a man who is already free Lineages
None of the subsequent Saiddhantika sources go beyond the basic premise established here.
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
… every kind of person is at Belagave, and it is Kalamukha rather than Saiddhantika, described in an inscription of 1162 that Fleet edited: "— a place where food is always given to the poor, the helpless, the la…