Dear All, I am looking for works on the ideas of *prakāśa*, *loka*, and how these concepts, if they do, relate to each other. Often, these two terms may (e.g., in nondual philosophies) appear in contradiction to each other. But I am particularly searching for any scholarship that produces something around a philological history or a history of these ideas (philosophical), or any analysis of literary usage before or after their usages in the post-sūtra age texts. To contextualise what *prakāśa *and loka might share: If I am not misquoting, Kśemarāja employs the word loka by deriving it from √*lok*+ *ghañ*. And so does Candrakīrti (perhaps in his discussion on *lokaprasiddhi*, as I learned from Prof. Mattia Salvini). I am not very much confident about the prevalence and implications of this derivation, but it certainly indicates a possible relation that √*lok* (- *loka darśane*) might share with √*kāś *in *prakāśa*.
As my doctoral research focuses on Abhinavagupta's concept of *prasiddhi *and its ontological relation with his concept of non-dual *prakāśa, *my interest lies in the ontological implications of the terms I mentioned above. I am aware of only one work that takes a somewhat similar direction: Jan Gonda's 1966 book, *Loka - World and the Heaven in the Vedas.* I would be grateful if you could provide any references discussing these concepts. Thanks and regards, Himanshu Doctoral Candidate Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay Mumbai
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