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The Essence of the Tantra10.15

10.15

तद् यदा उपदिश्यते भाव्यते वा यत् तत्प्रतिष्ठापदम् तत् सप्तत्रिंशम् तस्मिन्न् अपि भाव्यमाने अष्टात्रिंशम् न च अनवस्था तस्य भाव्यमानस्य अनवच्छिन्नस्वातन्त्र्ययोगिनो वेद्यीकरणे सप्तत्रिम्श एव पर्यवसानात् षट्त्रिंशं तु सर्वतत्त्वोत्तीर्णतया सम्भाव्यावच्छेदम् इति पञ्चकलाविधिः

Transliteration (IAST)

tad yadā upadiśyate bhāvyate vā yat tatpratiṣṭhāpadam tat saptatriṃśam tasminn api bhāvyamāne aṣṭātriṃśam na ca anavasthā tasya bhāvyamānasya anavacchinnasvātantryayogino vedyīkaraṇe saptatrimśa eva paryavasānāt ṣaṭtriṃśaṃ tu sarvatattvottīrṇatayā sambhāvyāvacchedam iti pañcakalāvidhiḥ

— is taught or is contemplated ; — the ground-station that supports it ; — the thirty-seventh ; — when (that too) is being contemplated ; — the thirty-eighth ; — and there is no infinite regress ; — of (that which is) endowed with undelimited autonomy ; — in being made an object of knowledge ; — because it terminates ; — by transcending all the principles ; — of conceivable delimitation ; — the scheme of the five segments

When that (thirty-sixth) is taught or contemplated, the ground-station that supports it is the thirty-seventh; and when that too is being contemplated, there is the thirty-eighth. Yet there is no infinite regress, since for that which, when contemplated, is endowed with undelimited autonomy, the making of it into an object of knowledge terminates at the thirty-seventh; whereas the thirty-sixth, by its transcending all the principles, is of a conceivable delimitation. Such is the scheme of the five segments.