Sacred works
- AnuttarāṣṭikāEight verses on the Anuttara, the Supreme beyond which there is nothing: no crossing over, no practice and no path lead into what is already the case, so rest just as you are and enjoy your own lordship of the universe.In Recognition
- BhairavastavaTen verses of praise to Bhairava as one's own Self: the whole universe shining as made of him, the fear of saṃsāra falling away, and a closing verse that gives the date of the hymn.In Recognition
- BodhapañcadaśikāFifteen verses on consciousness, written to be grasped easily: Śiva is the one light in which both light and darkness appear; his Power is never apart from him, as burning from fire; bondage is not knowing this, release is knowing it.In Recognition
- Īśvarapratyabhijñā VimarśinīUtpaladeva's verses on "recognising the Lord" as one's own self, carried whole inside Abhinavagupta's commentary, in four divisions: knowledge, action, scripture, and the summing-up of the levels of reality.In Recognition
- KramastotraThirty verses in praise of the Krama goddesses, among them Sṛṣṭi, Raktā, Saṃsāra, Mahākālī and Manthāna: the emission, relish and withdrawal of all things as the Goddess's own cycle, with a closing verse that gives the date.In Recognition
- Paramārthasāra"The essence of the highest truth" in 105 verses: a disciple bewildered by birth and death asks his guru, and Abhinavagupta retells the old answer in Śiva's light — the levels of reality, and freedom as knowing oneself as Śiva.In Recognition
- Parātrīśikā LaghuvṛttiAbhinavagupta's short commentary on the Parātrīśikā: the Goddess asks Bhairava how the anuttara, of itself, gives the Kaula accomplishment, and the answer is taken through the letters and the mantra to the rite of worship.In Recognition
- ParyantapañcāśikāFifty-two verses on the Word as the heart of the all-pervading Lord: Bhairava and Bhairavī as that of which even being and non-being are made, and the powers gathered between its beginning and its end.In Recognition