About the Book:
Pratyabhijnahrdayam serves as the best introduction to the Pratyabhijna philosophy of Kashmir. Very little is known of the life and parentage of Ksemaraja. It has been very rightly said that his book, Pratyabhijnahrdayam occupies the same place in Saiva or Trika literature as Vedantasara does in Vedanta. It avoids all polemics and gives in a very succinct form the main tenets of the Pratyabhijna system. He says at the very outset of his work.