A book of this stature cannot be written only with a command of knowledge, language or with possessing the writing faculty. For this is requires sadhana derived realisation.
Abhinava Gupta explains in its thirty six chapters the all-inclusive vision and way to truth, the Prakash state of Parama Shiva. This publication is the first attempt to unfold this Prakash for the English-speaking world.
Assembled from public and private art collections in India and abroad, these views are now being published together, along with a short survey of travellers' accounts of their visits to Varanasi, for the first time.
The abundant allusions to cognate Indo-European languages and the textual references are an invaluable help in tracing the development of words' meanings in the long history of Sanskrit literature. The present work contains more than 180,000 words.
