THE SACRED LIBRARY
About Jayakhya Samhita
The teaching is presented through a chain of sacred conversation. At Prabhasa, Samvartaka asks his father Aurva how to escape repeated birth. Aurva recalls sages of the Krita Yuga whose long austerities had not given them lasting freedom. A heavenly voice tells them that liberation requires knowledge of the eternal divine reality, identified here with Narayana, the conch- and discus-bearing Vishnu.
More About Jayakhya Samhita
A Pancharatra Samhita preserving Vaishnava ritual, iconographic and theological instruction.
AT A GLANCE
Identity & Context
- Identity
- Text
- Form
- Agamas & Tantras
- Tradition
- Hindu religious traditions
INSIDE THE TEXT
Stories & Teachings
ROLE & ESSENCE
Themes & Meaning
The Samhita connects its highest aim with the realities of sustained practice. The sages need understanding, Narada needs steadiness, and the worshipper needs a way to restore neglected observances. These concerns explain why philosophy, inward discipline and detailed ritual share one scriptural setting.
Library Category
Form / Textual Family
Agama / Tantra
Traditional Attribution
An inherited textual tradition; no single historical author is established here.
Subject & Teachings
A Pancharatra Samhita preserving Vaishnava ritual, iconographic and theological instruction.
Associated Deities / Figures
Textual Relationships
Historical Context
Composition, transmission and redaction must be distinguished; no unsupported exact date is assigned.
Reading Notes
This overview supplies context and reading connections, not reconstructed initiation or ritual instructions.
Tradition Notes
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
Archive Classification Notes
Original archive annotations are retained here. The current playable classification is shown in the side panel.
- Tradition Dependence
- High — compare the identified textual or regional account.
- Structure
- Consult the identified edition for chapters, recension and numbering.
TRADITION & MEANING
Traditions & Interpretations
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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FOLLOW THE THREADS
Connected Cards
5 connected profiles. Every path leads to an original record.
The Sacred Library2
Jayakhya belongs to the Pancharatra scriptural tradition.
Characters & Cosmic Entities3
Vishnu is the Lord whose nature and worship the sages seek to understand.
Narada receives the divine teaching and transmits it to Shandilya.
Shandilya teaches the assembled sages what he learned from Narada.