A 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.

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• 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.

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