Argument
IPVV — V3-A ARGUMENT MAP (the kriyādhikāra opening: kriyā, kāla, krama)
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Question. Is action (kriyā) — and in particular the *Lord's* action — ordered or sequence-bound (sakrama)? And what is time (kāla) and order (krama) in relation to it?
Issue. **The question:** Is action (kriyā) — and in particular the *Lord's* action — ordered or
sequence-bound (sakrama)? And what is time (kāla) and order (krama) in relation to it?
The whole vimarśa (kārikās 1–9) is announced at the start. Abhinavagupta is now leaving the
knowledge-power (jñānaśakti) and turning to the **action-power (kriyāśakti)**. The thread: just as
consciousness's power to *know* (manifest objects) was established, so now its power to *act* must be.
But there's a paradox: the Lord is said to be beyond time and sequence (akrama), yet the world
manifests *as a sequence* (krama). How can the timeless act in time?
Premises
Maṅgala
> I bow to Śiva, who — though free of sequence — manifests manifold sequences; the nectar-bodied one,
> enjoying the third part of the fourfold nectar-moment (amṛtakalā).
This states the whole thesis in one image: Śiva is *without* order yet *shows* order. The problem is
set from the first line.
The plan
> "Hence, although it was said that the action of the one is not ordered — 'the one' and the rest —
> [that] is rejected, by the establishing of that one [as the agent]."
The prior view (pūrvapakṣa) being rejected
> "The ordered-ness of the worldly action is from the time-power; it obtains, but not of the eternal
> [action] of the Lord, as of the Lord [himself]."
Unresolved. 1. The a. pra. si. 22 and "idam ityasya vicchinnavimarśasya" quotations (lines 139, 152) are fragmentary
here; they anchor the kāla/prakāśa point but are truncated in this excerpt.
2. The exact force of "vedyacchāyāchuraṇā" ("the tint of the shadow of the known") — rendered as "the
shadow of the known"; the veil/nuance image is clear, the precise mechanism is Abhinava's own.
Tension: IPVV-internal-arc-vimarsas
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