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Śiva Sūtras

A foundational text of Kashmir Śaivism, said to have been revealed to Vasugupta.

Also: Shiva Sutras

Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantra and devotion

The Śiva Sūtras are seventy-seven aphorisms which, according to tradition, Vasugupta found inscribed on a rock in the ninth century. The first declares that consciousness is the self. They set out the three means to realization and became, with the commentary of Kṣemarāja, a basic text of Kashmir Śaivism.