transgressive sexual union in Tantra

Abhinavagupta, Tantr�loka (= TA henceforth), Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies (= KS henceforth) no. 30 (Bombay: 1921), vol. 3, 4.243a–244b. For his attribution of his highest spiritual realizations to the transgressive technique of the Kulay�ga, see TA, vol. 11, chap.29, KS no. 57 (Bombay: 1936), and its treatment by Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam (with Charles Mopsik), "Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism (and Kabbala)," in Hananya Goodman, ed., Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism (Albany: SUNY, 1994), pp.195-222. For transgressive Vedic esotericism, see Dum�zil below on the Varunic pole of the first or priestly function in Vedic society