Abhinavagupta (940-1015 CE): Collection of Manuscripts of his works

This collection comprises 248 Manuscripts of Abhinavagupta (CE 940-1015), an outstanding Indian thinker in the domain of philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory, performative art, music, tantra, yoga, and devotion who lived in Srinagar, Kashmir in the 10th century. Composed around 41 granthas (texts), the manuscripts document a knowledge culture whose intellectual and artistic influence once permeated Northeast Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia. These documents are the only surviving records of the expression by an exceptional mind of a Non-Theo-centric Knowledge Culture – the Vedic/ Āgamika – a knowledge system with distinct ontology, distinct belief system, distinct modes of worship and distinct practices in the arts and their reception.