In Search of Utpaladeva’s Lost Vivṛti on the Pratyabhijñā Treatise: A Report on the Latest Discoveries (with the Vivṛti on the End of Chapter 1.8) Isabelle Ratié 1 Published online: 20 June 2016 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 Abstract The Īśvarapratyabhijñā treatise—an important philosophical text com- posed in Kashmir in the 10th century CE by the S ´ aiva nondualist Utpaladeva— remains partly unavailable to date: a crucial component of this work, namely the detailed commentary (Vivṛti or Ṭīkā) in which Utpaladeva explained his own verses, is considered as almost entirely lost, since only a small part of it has been preserved in a single, very incomplete manuscript remarkably edited and translated by Raf- faele Torella. However, our knowledge of the Vivṛti is quickly expanding: many additional fragments have recently come to light. The article gives an overview of these new findings while highlighting the most interesting of them, i.e. the discovery of the lengthiest Vivṛti fragment known to date in the margins of a manuscript containing Abhinavagupta’s Vivṛtivimarśinī. It also provides an edition and trans- lation of the beginning of this fragment. Keywords Utpaladeva · Pratyabhijn ˜a ¯ · Nondual S ´ aivism · Consciousness · Idealism · Fragments Many thanks are due to Chetan Pandey, whose commendable endeavour to make photographs of various manuscripts preserved in Jammu and Kashmir and whose generosity in sharing these photographs with the scholarly community have led to the most interesting discovery mentioned in this article (see below, fn. 21); to Alexis Sanderson, among countless reasons for helping me identify the scribe of a manuscript (see below, fn. 12); and to Vincent Eltschinger, for carefully reading a previous version of this paper and for providing insightful remarks. & Isabelle Ratie ´ isabelle.ratie@gmail.com 1 Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris 3), Centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France 123 J Indian Philos (2017) 45:163–189 DOI 10.1007/s10781-016-9302-2