Agamas - Related Scripture

Agamas occupying center stage of Shaivite worship, many auxiliary texts from learnt scholars sprang based on them. The following are some of the texts that were written on the basis of the information in Agamas.

aShTa prakaraNa

All the authors are from kashmir. Focuses on the nyAna pAda of the Agama.

paddhati

paddhatis are manuals written by scholars who studied the wide and vast Agamas and from that made quick start manuals bringing out the application parts that would be quite useful for the rituals. Naturally these paddhatis focus on the cariya, kriya pAda of the Agama.

Many scholars have written these paddhatis. The following are the much respected ones. Of these the paddhatis of sOmashambhu & aghora shivam are well known.

1. dUrvAsa shivar
2. paiN^gaLa shivar
3. ugra jyOti
4. shrI kaNThar
5. viShNu kaNThar
6. subOdhar
7. vidyA kaNThar
8. rAma kaNThar
9. nyAna shivar
10. nyAna shankarar
11. sOmashambhu
12. brahma shambhu
13. trilOchana shivar
14. agora shivar
15. varuNa shivar
16. prasAdha shivar
17. rAmanAtha shivar
18. IshAna shivar

Other Texts based on Agamas

• shaiva bhUShaNam - panychAkshara yogi
• siddhantha sArAvaLi - trilOchana shivAchAriyAr
• kriyA dIpikai - shivAgra yogi
• shataratna sangraham - umApati shivAchAryAr
• shaivAgama paribhAShA ma~njari - vEdanyAnar

thamiz texts based on Agamas

• thirumandhiram - thirumUlar
• nyAnAmirtham - vAkIsha munivar (kiraNAgamam)
• shaiva samaya neRi - chithambaram maRainyAna sambandhar
• tattuvap prakAsham - tattuvap prakAshar
• shivaprakAsha viLakkam - thuRaimangalam shivaprakashar
• shatamaNi mAlai - thuRaimangalam shivaprakashar
• meykaNDa nUlkaL

  Authors of Auxiliary texts based on Agamas

  sadyOjyoti

• First among the urai Asiriyars.
• Disciple of ugrajyOti shivAchAriyar.
• Referred by abhinava gupta in tantraloka vrutti.
• Lived before nineth century ACE.
• raurava Agama urai is renowned.
• Other texts by him - tattvatraya nirnamayam, tattva sangraham, bhoga kArika, moksha kArika, paramOksha nirAsa kArika, nareshvara parikshai, mantra vArttikam

  bhatta nArAyana kanta

• Son of vidya kantar.
• urai for 4 padas of mrugendram.
• urai for the tattva sangraha of sadyojoti shivam by name "bruhat Tika".
• texts - stotrAvaLi.

  bhatta rAma kaNTha

• Two rAma kaNThas - one acharya of the vidyakanta who was the father of bhatta narayana kanta. He has written satvrutti.
• Second one is the son of bhatta nArAyaNa kaNtha. He deals even very involved concepts of Agamas. He refers to all Agamas and upaniShads.
• Texts - kiraNAgama vruddi, matanga pAramEshvara vrutti, cArta trishati kAlottara vrutti, moksha kArika vruttim paramOksha kArika vrutti, nareshvara parIksha prakAsham, nAda kArika, jAti nirnNaya pUrvaka Alaya pravEsha vidi, vyOma vyApistavam, manta vArttika Tika, raurava vrutti Tika, Agama viveka

  agora shivam

• Original name - parameshvaran.
• Disciple of sarvAtma shambhu.
• chithambara sram has his brief history.
• Belong to thamiz nadu.
• Texts - kriyA krama tyotika, sarva nyAnottara vrutti, kiraNAgama vrutti, mrugEndra vrutti dIpikai, sarva vidyEsini, tattva prakAshika vrutti, tattva sangraha laghu Tika, tattva traya nirNaya vrutti, ratna traya ullEkini, bhOga kArika vyAkayai, nAda kArika vyAkyai, Accarya sAram, bhAShaNDa apajayam, bhakta prakAsham, nAtya apyutayam, shiva panychAvaraNa stotram

  umApati shivam

• Texts - kunychithAngri sthavam, nataraja dvanimantra sthavam, yantra vidhAna Tika, vAyu samhita vrutti, srI rudra vrutti, pauShkarAgama vrutti.
• Other are tamil texts

  nyAna prakAshar

• Belong to yAzppANam.
• Has written urai for pauShkara Agamam.
• Texts - pramANi dIpikai, prasAda dIpikai, aGYAna vivEchanam, siddhantha shikamaNi, shivayOga sAram, shivayOga ratnam, shiva samAdi mahAtmiya sangraham,

  vAtuLAgama uraiyAsiriyar

• Detailed urai for vAthuLam.
• Not much know about him including name.

   

  S. No.	Name of the Text	Author
  1.	durvAsa shivar	bhOja deva
  2.	tattva sangraha	sadyojyOti
  3.	tattva traya nirNayam	sadyojyOti
  4.	ratna trayam	shrIkaNTha
  5.	boga kArika	sadyojyOti
  6.	nAda kArika	bhatta rAmakanTha
  7.	mokha kArika	sadyojyoti
  8.	paramokha nirAcha kArika	sadyojyoti

   

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  2. காமிகாகமம்
  3. காமிகாகமம் தொடர்ச்சி
  4. Books on Agamas