Raja Raja The Great

Author(s): Anantacharya Indological Research Institute
Publisher: Anantacharya Indological Research Institute

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dualistic and realistic inclinations directly opposed to the general monistic and idealistic trends of other systems And in Saivasiddhanta Aghorasiva stands as an extremist drawing the dualistic and realistic tendency to its farthest' consequences.
To conclude a word has to be told on the influence of Aghorasiva. His influence has been maintained upto our days in the field of rituals, by his Paddhati which is still remembered and used by priests in temples of Tamilnadu. Many manuscripts of his Kriyakramadyotika, complete or in the form of extracts, are found only in South India, especially in Tamilnadu, unlike manuscripts of Somasambhupaddhati, which has been current in Tamilnāḍu but also elsewhere in India, as manuscripts of it are found in Kasmir and Nepal. In the field of the doctrine AghoraŚiva does not seem to have been followed. The prominent trend after him is also a kind of dualism, but blended with monism. The main movement is that which has its origins in the Sanskrit agamic literature, but which has taken Tamil as a medium of exposition, from the time of Meykanḍadevar in 13th century. It has different ontological foundations.
Tamil Saivasiddhanta literature is a great contribution of Tamilnadu. Earlier in Cola times Tamilnadu had already contributed a lot to the history of Saivasiddhanta and produced the most extreme and pure form of the doctrine in the philosophical works of Aghoraśivacārya.
Appendix.
We give below the text of the Aghorasivacāryacaritam from a transcript preserved in the French Institute of Pondicherry, of the unique known manuscript belonging to Tiruvadudurai Math
Cidambarasåre brahmanandaśamkarayatiśvarasamvade
śrimadaghoraśivācāryacaritam
yatra pratiṣṭhitam lingam patanjalimahātmanā tatra gatvă mahādevam siṣyaiḥ sākam yatiiśvaraḥ // 1 // phalapuspakṣatair gandhaiḥ samabhyarcya yathāvidhi dvārād bahiḥ samagacchan brahmanandayatiśvaraḥ // 2 || "śivalayasya purato vahnikone virājitam
dṛśyamānam idam sthanam visņor va samkarasya va // 3 //