Absorption, immersion, being entered into: the state in which the limited self is pervaded by Shiva, or by the power of Rudra. It is the Malinivijayottara's own category, and that tantra classifies it in three kinds, each distinguished by the instrument through which it arises. Abhinavagupta read those three as the three upayas, which is how a vocabulary of states became a vocabulary of means.

Where this term appears

• The four upayas: what it cost to call a state a method Lineages →

  …va ." — Mālinīvijayottara 2.23, KSTS 37 What the three verses sort is samavesha , absorption, the state of being entered into.

• Avesha: what the tantras did when nothing happened Lineages →

  Where samavesha means absorption or immersion, in the mature tradition, it construes with a locative or a genitive.

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anupayaaveshaupayashaktipatMalinivijayottaraKshemaraja

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