srotas
स्रोतस् srotasA stream or current of revelation. Shaiva scripture divides itself into five srotas said to issue from the five faces of Sadashiva; the classification is internal to the Shaiva canon and has no Saura member.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The five srotas , the five streams issuing from the five faces of Sadashiva, are a genuine classification and a genuinely tantric one.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
The srotas , streams, sort scriptures by the mouth of God that spoke them, while the pīṭhas , seats, sort them by whose cult they teach; the numbered canons count them, in tens and eighteens and sixty-fours and…