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- Shaiva-siddhanta, religious and philosophical system of South India in which Shiva is worshipped as the supreme deity. It draws primarily on the Tamil devotional hymns written by Shaiva saints from the 5th to the 9th century, known in their collected form as Tirumurai.
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Shaivism ( / ˈʃaɪvɪzəm /; Sanskrit: शैवसम्प्रदायः, romanized : Śaivasampradāyaḥa) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva [ 1][ 2][ 3] as the Supreme Being.
This study is an analytic survey of the surviving religious literature of the Śaivas of India, predominantly prescriptive and predominantly in Sanskrit but also in regional languages, from the early centuries of the common era onwards, including the Śākta developments, with the primary aim of providing scholars with a chronologically ordered ...
- Alexis Sanderson
This literature is the out-com and the exposition of the Saiva Siddhanta. Indeed the assertion might easily be proved that of the best literature in Tamil cannot be understood except by the aid to the Saiva Siddhanta.
Shaiva Siddhanta ( IAST: Śaiva-siddhānta) [ 1][ 2] is a form of Shaivism popular in South India and Sri Lanka which propounds a devotional philosophy with the ultimate goal of experiencing union with Shiva.
Jul 24, 2017 · The article starts with the critical observation that the modern narratives of Saiva Siddhanta since the revival phase around 1900 have portrayed Saiva Siddhanta in a manner that stresses monovocality and continuity over diversity, change, and possibilities of alternative and dissenting voices.
- Rafael Klöber
- 2017
May 23, 2012 · Shaiva Siddhānta (Śaiva Siddhānta, Śaivasiddhānta, Saiva Siddhanta, Caiva cittāntam), “the established conclusion of Shaivism,” is a school of thought and ritual practice based on twenty-eight Shaiva āgamas or tantras, authoritative scriptures in Sanskrit that proclaim their origins as divine knowledge revealed by Shiva.
The Saiva Siddhanta tradition draws its authority from the 28 Saiva Agamas, the devotional works of several saints of Saivism, and the writings of several thinkers and scholars. The first known guru of Saiva Siddhanta tradition was Nandinatha, who lived around 250 BC in the present day Kashmir.
