unmesha
उन्मेष unmeṣa'Opening' or 'unfolding', as of an eye or a flower: the outward expansion of consciousness, paired with nimesha, its closing. It is also the name Kshemaraja gives to each of the three divisions of the Shiva Sutras, where Bhaskara's rival commentary calls them prakashas instead.
Where this term appears
- The four upayas: what it cost to call a state a method Lineages
He puts the names in his section colophons, in the standard form, so they are not passing remarks: the illumination of the shambhava means, named the first unmesha , an opening.
- The Shiva Sutras: the rock, the count, and the commentary that won Lineages
Seventy-seven Ask how many Shiva Sutras there are and you will be told seventy-seven, divided into three unmeshas , "openings," of twenty-two, ten and forty-five.