[INDOLOGY] New book jointly published by the Institut Français de Pondichéry/Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient/Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg

[Anurupa Naik]

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*The Niśvāsatattvasaṃ̣hitā. The Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra. Volume 
**1.**A Critical Edition & Annotated Translation of the Mūlasūtra, 
Uttarasūtra & Nayasūtra.*

Edited by Dominic Goodall in collaboration with Alexis Sanderson & 
Harunaga Isaacson with contributions of Nirajan Kafle, Diwakar Acharya & 
others, Collection Indologie n˚ 128; Early Tantra Series n˚ 1, Institut 
Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / 
Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, 662 p.

Language: Sanskrit, English. *1200**Rs (52 €).*ISBN: 978-81-8470-205-7 
(IFP) / 978-2-85539-151-9 (EFEO).

Transmitted to us in a well-preserved ninth-century Nepalese manuscript, 
the /Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā/ has come in recent years to be recognised as 
probably the oldest surviving complete scripture of the 
Mantramārga.Although its historical importance has been hinted at by a 
range of scholars across the twentieth century, this is the first time 
its text appears in print.


This volume presents a critical edition and annotated translation of the 
three earliest layers of the text: the /Mūlasūtra/, /Uttarasūtra/ and 
/Nayasūtra/. The topics dealt with include cosmology, rituals of worship 
and initiation, and forms of yoga. A lengthy introduction sets these 
/sūtra/s in context, in particular by examining the evidence for dating 
them. There follow a summary of their contents, an account of the early 
manuscript and its three twentieth-century apographs, and a treatment of 
the various ways in which the language of the Niśvāsa deviates from 
Pāṇinian norms.

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*Keywords:*Mantramārga, Śaivism, Śaivasiddhānta, Early Tantra, Ritual, 
Initiation, Cosmography, Yoga

*About the Editors*

After studies in Oxford and in Hamburg, *Dominic Goodall* passed several 
years working in Pondicherry, where he was head of the Pondicherry 
Centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient from 2002 to 2011.  He 
has published critical editions of Śaiva works and of classical Sanskrit 
poetry (most recently, with Csaba Dezső, the eighth-century 
/Kuṭṭanīmata/ of Dāmodaragupta).  He is currently based in Paris, where 
he gives lectures on Indian and Cambodian Sanskrit literature at the 
École pratique des hautes études (religious science section).

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*Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson*is a renowned expert on the history of 
Śaivism and on tantric traditions. After taking undergraduate degrees in 
Classics and Sanskrit at Balliol College, Oxford, he spent six years in 
Kashmir studying with the celebrated scholar and Śaiva guru Swami 
Lakshman Joo. From 1977 to 1992 he was Lecturer in Sanskrit in the 
University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolfson College. Since 1992 he has 
held the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics in the 
University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of All Souls College.

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*Harunaga Isaacson*studied in Groningen (MA 1990) and was awarded a PhD 
in Sanskrit by the University of Leiden in 1995. After holding positions 
for research and teaching at the Universities of Oxford, Hamburg and 
Pennsylvania, he was appointed Professor of Classical Indology in the 
Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, 
Hamburg, in 2006. His main research areas are: tantric traditions in 
pre-13^th -century South Asia, especially Vajrayāna Buddhism; classical 
Sanskrit poetry; classical Indian philosophy; and Purāṇic literature.

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