प्रमाणम् अपि आहुरभिनवगुप्तगुरवः

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

तन्त्रसारे विचित्रम् इदं वाक्यम् -

एवं कलादितत्त्वानां धरान्तानाम् अपि **द्वैरूप्यं निरूप्यम्** ।  
अत्र च द्वैरूप्ये प्रमाणम् अपि आहुरभिनवगुप्तगुरवः।

इति https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.242330/page/n105/mode/1up ।

अत्र किमप्य् असमञ्जसम् । कुत आत्मानम् "अभिनवगुप्तगुरव" इति सम्बोधयेत् साक्षाद् अभिनवगुप्तः?!! स ह्य् अन्यत्र अस्मच्छब्दम् एव प्रयुङ्क्ते।

मन्ये मुकुन्दरामवाक्यम् पादटिप्पनीभ्य उत्पत्य मुख्यपाठे प्रविष्टम्।

कः शुद्धः पाठो ऽत्र??

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Vishvas /विश्वासः

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

अथवा हेमन्तार्यानुसारेणायम् एव शुद्धः -

"The evidence regarding this twofold nature of principles has been given by Abhinavagup ta's teachers in the following way"

[T Ganesan]

शिवाय नमः ॥

Though apparaently it looks incongruent to find the name Abhinavagupta in the body of the text, we do find an instance where Abhinavagupta mentions his name in the 3rd invocatory verse:

श्रीशम्भुनाथभास्करचरणनिपातप्रभापगतसंकोचम् ।

अभिनवगुप्तहृदम्बुजम् एतद् विचिनुत महेशपूजनहेतोः॥

Only at 2 places it seems Abhinavagupta uses the compound अस्मद्गुरवः to denote his Guru.

On the contrary  in the body of the Tantrasara we find 4 places where अभिनवगुप्तगुरवः is repeated.

From this it becomes evident that Abhinavagupta had his own convention in directly mentioning himself by his name and not by such words as अस्माभिः, मया, etc. which we normally find in many other texts.

So I do not find any असमञ्जसम् in these usages and they are all very much the words of Abhinavaguptacharya. Consequently there is no need to go in for any 'correction' or to search for any शुद्धपाठ .

Best wishes

Ganesan

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