Mokṣopāya-ṭīkā of Bhāskarakaṇṭha 1

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This volume continues the publication of the fragments of the Moksopaya with the commentary of the Kashmiri Shaivite philosopher Bhaskarakantha critically edited by Walter Slaje (Moksopaya-Tika I–IV). It contains the critical edition of the first half of the large extant fragment of the Nirvanaprakarana — the sixth section of the Moksopaya, the last and by far the most substantial — with Bhaskarakantha’s commentary Nirvanatika. The Moksopaya, a huge philosophico-soteriological work probably composed by a Kashmiri author in the tenth century of our era, was the original version of what would become the Yogavasistha, which enjoyed enormous popularity in India, in certain regions second only to the two great epic poems.