Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta

The Krama School of the Trika aivism of Kashmir, more familiar as KAlAkrama in the contemporary parlance, has turned out to be the most crucial among the monistic aiva traditions of medieval Kashmir after the Pratyabhij A school, a scenario people could hardly envisage six decades back when it first came to the notice of modern scholarship. The doctrine of KAlAkrama, lit. sequential order of consciousness deities called KAlAs, constitutes the most pivotal aspect of this school marked by a synchronous resonance between the esoteric/TAntric and cognitive/metaphysical undercurrents of the system.