परमार्थसार (महामाहेश्वर अभिनवगुप्त - त्रिक-दर्शन, अद्वैत शैव साधना एवं सान्वय सटीक)

12 Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta
He carried the Kashmirian Śaiva monism to its climax in both of
its aspects of philosophic theory and practical sādhanā. He wrote
detailed commentaries on all the philosophic works of Utpaladeva
and Somānanda. Two among them are still available. One of
them is his Vimarśinī on the couplets of Īśvara-pratyabhijñā of
Utpaladeva and the other one consists of detailed notes on the
works picked up from Utpaladeva's own Ṭīkā on those couplets.
Since the Ṭīkā of Utpaladeva is not at all available, the latter one
does not become so useful to students as it could have become
had the text of the said Ṭīkā become available. This work is
named as Īśvarapratyabhijñā-vivṛti-vimarśinī. The former one,
named Īśvarapratyabhijñā-vimarśinī, has ever since enjoyed the
position of the best and the highest work on the philosophical
side of Kashmir Śaivism. His commentaries on Śivadṛṣṭi and
Siddhitrayī have unfortunately been lost.
Abhinavagupta collected, compiled, arranged in order and inter-
preted the main doctrines of the Trika system of Śaiva yoga and
that of the religio philosophic rituals of that system and expressed
them in philosophic style in his voluminous work named Tantrā-
loka, which is the best and unique treatise among all the works on
the practical side of spiritual philosophy in the whole world. Abhi-
navagupta's Tantrasāra is a gist of his Tantrāloka and is written
in simple prose. His Vivaraṇa on Parātriṁśaka, a scriptural work
on Trika system of yoga, is very profound in character and con-
tains highly minute ideas regarding the esoteric principles and
doctrines of the Trika system of Śaiva yoga in its highest aspect.
One of his very important works on the philosophic principles
and the doctrines of practice of Kashmir Śaivism is Mālinīvijaya-
vārtika which is a voluminous work written in simple Sanskrit
verse. Such an important and wonderful work on the monistic
spiritual philosophy does not bear any commentary, though it
requires explanatory notes very badly. Reference to and quotations
from many of his other works on the practice of Śaivism are avail-
able, but such works could not be actually found so far. One of
the most important works among them is his Kramakeli, a
commentary on the Kramastotra of Siddhanātha dealing with the
Kālī worship in the Śākta yoga of the Trika system. Like Utpala-
deva he also was a good poet as well and some of his philosophic
lyrics are still available though some have been lost. Several of
them have been published as appendices to his book on Abhinava-