Hindu Philosophy. In justice to the exertions of this Research Department it will not be far from relevancy to mention here that even when His Highness the late Mahārājā Ranavira Singh Sahib Bahadur of blessed memory, had a thorough search made for rare MSS. in Kashmir and far-off places like Tibet, a clue could not even be found to the works alluded to above. It is therefore no wonder if, unguided by a far more beaming light as this Trika Shāsana, the interpretation of Shaiva Shāsana given in terms of Dualism by some writers, be merely their groping in darkness when they were searching after truth, as a critical study of the Trika proves it, beyond all doubt and dispute, that, as a system of philosophy, Shaiva Shasana treats of Pure or Idealistic Monism. Let this suffice here.
With regard to the Parā-Trimshikā, which, coming under the category of the Agama Shāstras, forms the subject of our discussion, the following points may be interesting to the reader :-
Text.—The text consists of about 30 Shlokas in the form of a dialogue between Bhairava and Bhairavi or Shiva and Shakti, with the latter as interrogator. The deep import of the identity of Shiva and Shakti being the burden of the book, it is said to be Rudra-Yāmala or the Union of Rudra and Rudrāņi.
