Saivism

* There was no discussion of scriptural commentaries, such as the 13th century CE Sarvadarshanasamgraha by Madhavacharya Vidyaranya as refererenced to me by lay historian Vishal Agarwal in which the influential saint hailing from what we know now as the southern state of Karnataka included Kashmiri Saivism amongst the 15 significant Hindu schools of thought.

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

* There was no discussion of scriptural commentaries, such as the 13th century CE Sarvadarshanasamgraha by Madhavacharya Vidyaranya as refererenced to me by lay historian Vishal Agarwal in which the influential saint hailing from what we know now as the southern state of Karnataka included Kashmiri Saivism amongst the 15 significant Hindu schools of thought.

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

* There was no discussion of scriptural commentaries, such as the 13th century CE Sarvadarshanasamgraha by Madhavacharya Vidyaranya as refererenced to me by lay historian Vishal Agarwal in which the influential saint hailing from what we know now as the southern state of Karnataka included Kashmiri Saivism amongst the 15 significant Hindu schools of thought.

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

* There was no discussion of scriptural commentaries, such as the 13th century CE Sarvadarshanasamgraha by Madhavacharya Vidyaranya as refererenced to me by lay historian Vishal Agarwal in which the influential saint hailing from what we know now as the southern state of Karnataka included Kashmiri Saivism amongst the 15 significant Hindu schools of thought.

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

Conversion of King Srimaravarman to Saivism by Tirujnana Sambandhar, the first of 63 nayanmars, or Tamil saints, led the king to impale 8,000 Jains at Madura in a single day, since celebrated by the Saivas.

c. South India 2001

The Pallava Mahendravarman I, converted from Jainism to Saivism, destroyed a Jain temple, but dug the first (Saivite) cave-temples in the south (at Trichinopoly, Chingleput, etc.).

c. South India 2001

For those engrossed in worldly phenomena (maya), he recognized that a simpler kind of knowledge was necessary; and for them he was a practical apostle of Saivism.

753-973 2001

Partial syncretism with Saivism led to a cult of Vairochana and various new divinities, largely terrible or erotic.

C. South and Southeast Asia, 500-1500 2001

The gradual absorption of substratum cults within the formal brahmanistic framework under the tutelage of the Brahmans gave rise to the complex system of beliefs and practices, characterized as the two main sects of Saivism (worship of Siva) and Vaishnavism (worship of Visnu and his avatars or incarnations).

C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia 2001

_Vaishṇ. and Saivism_, pp. 76-82 and Farquhar, _Outlines of Relig.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896