तन्त्रसार
Tantrasāra
- 1 sa eva sthānaprakalpanaśabdena uktaḥ tatra tridhā sthānaṃ prāṇavāyuḥ … That very locus is what was meant by the term "the establishing of the locus.
- 2 saṃvid eva hi prameyebhyo vibhaktaṃ rūpaṃ gṛhṇāti ata … For Consciousness itself takes on a form distinct from the objects of knowledge, and for…
- 3 tatra kriyā śaktau kālādhvā prācyabhāge uttare tu mūrtivaicitryarūpo … Therein action, in its power-aspect, is the temporal path on the prior side;
- 4 deśādhvasthitis tu tattvapurakalātmanā iti bhaviṣyati svāvasare The location within the spatial path, on the other hand — as principle, world, and…
- 5 tatra yady api dehe sabāhyābhyantaram otaprotarūpaḥ prāṇaḥ tathāpi … Now, although the breath is interwoven like warp and woof throughout the body, both outer…
- 6 tatra prabhuśaktiḥ ātmaśaktiḥ yatna iti tritayaṃ prāṇeraṇe hetuḥ … Therein the triad — the power of the Lord, the power of the self, and effort — is the…
- 7 tatra hṛdayāt dvādaśāntāntaṃ svāṅgulaiḥ sarvasya ṣaṭtriṃśadaṅgulaḥ prāṇacāraḥ nirgame … Therein, from the heart up to the dvādaśānta, measured by one's own finger-breadths, the…
- 8 tatra ghaṭikā tithiḥ māso varṣaṃ ca varṣasamūhātmā iti … Therein the ghaṭikā, the lunar day, the month, and the year — which consists of an…
- 9 atha tithyudayaḥ Now, the arising of the lunar day.
- 10 sapādam aṅguladvayaṃ tuṭiḥ ucyate tāsu catasṛṣu praharaḥ tuṭyardhaṃ … Two finger-breadths plus a quarter are called a tuṭi;
- 11 atha māsodayaḥ Now, the arising of the month.
- 12 tatra dinaṃ kṛṣṇapakṣaḥ rātriḥ śuklaḥ tatra pūrvaṃ tuṭyardham … Therein the day is the dark fortnight and the night the bright fortnight.
- 13 tatra vedyamayatāprakāśo dinaṃ vedyasya vicārayitari layo rātriḥ te … Therein the luminous manifestation consisting of the knowable is the day;
- 14 tatra kṛṣṇapakṣe prāṇārke apānacandra āpyāyikām ekām ekāṃ kalām … Therein, in the dark fortnight, the moon of apāna offers up to the sun of prāṇa one…
- 15 tadanantaraṃ yat tuṭyardhaṃ sa pakṣasandhiḥ The half-tuṭi that comes immediately after that is the juncture of the fortnights.
- 16 tasya ca tuṭyardhasya prācyam ardham āmāvasyaṃ dvitīyaṃ prātipadam And of that half-tuṭi, the prior half belongs to the new-moon day, the second to the…
- 17 tatra prātipade tasmin bhāge sa āmāvasyo bhāgo yadā … Now in that first-lunar-day portion, when the new-moon portion intrudes by reason of a…
- 18 pramātṛpramāṇaprameyatritayāvibhāgakāritvāt sa puṇyaḥ kālaḥ pāralaukikaphalapradaḥ Because it brings about the non-division of the triad of knower, means of knowledge, and…
- 19 tataḥ praviśati prāṇe cidarka ekaikayā kalayā apānacandram āpūrayati … Then, when the breath enters, the sun of consciousness fills the moon of apāna digit by…
- 20 atha varṣodayaḥ Now, the arising of the year.
- 21 tatra kṛṣṇapakṣa eva uttarāyaṇaṃ ṣaṭsu ṣaṭsu aṅguleṣu saṅkrāntiḥ … Therein the dark fortnight itself is the northern course of the sun: at every six…
- 22 tatra pratyaṅgulaṃ pañca tithayaḥ tatrāpi dinarātrivibhāgaḥ evaṃ praveśe … Therein there are five lunar days per finger-breadth, and there too the division into day…
- 23 tathaiva upāsā atra phalaṃ samucitaṃ karoti Just so, worship here produces its appropriate fruit.
- 24 atra ca dakṣādyāḥ pitāmahāntā rudrāḥ śaktayaś ca dvādaśādhipataya … And here the Rudras beginning with Dakṣa and ending with Pitāmaha, together with their…
- 25 pratyaṅgulaṃ ṣaṣṭiḥ tithaya iti krameṇa saṅkrāntau varṣam ity … Sixty lunar days per finger-breadth — so at each zodiacal passage there is a year.
- 26 tāvatī eva ahorātre prāṇasaṅkhyā iti na ṣaṣṭyabdodayāt adhikaṃ … Just that much is the number of breaths in a day-and-night;
- 27 tatra mānuṣaṃ varṣaṃ devānāṃ tithiḥ anena krameṇa divyāni … Therein a human year is a single lunar day of the gods.
- 28 catvāri trīṇi dve ekam iti kṛtāt prabhṛti tāvadbhiḥ … Four, three, two, one — these (thousands of divine years), beginning from the Kṛta age;
- 29 caturyugānām ekasaptatyā manvantaram manvantaraiḥ caturdaśabhiḥ brāhmaṃ dinaṃ brahmadinānte … By seventy-one cycles of four ages there is a Manvantara;
- 30 prabuddhās tu kūṣmāṇḍahāṭakeśādyā maholoke krīḍanti But the awakened ones, those beginning with Kūṣmāṇḍa and Hāṭakeśa, sport in the Mahar…
- 31 tato niśāsamāptau brāhmī sṛṣṭiḥ Then, at the end of the night, comes the creation belonging to Brahmā.
- 32 anena mānena varṣaśataṃ brahmāyuḥ By this measure, a hundred years is the lifespan of Brahmā.
- 33 tat viṣṇoḥ dinaṃ tāvatī ca rātriḥ tasyāpi śatam … That is a single day of Viṣṇu, and his night is of equal length;
- 34 tat dinaṃ tadūrdhve rudralokaprabho rudrasya tāvatī rātriḥ prāgvat … That is a single day, above that, of the lord of the Rudra world;
- 35 tatra rudrasya tadavasitau śivatvagatiḥ rudrasya uktādhikārāvadhiḥ brahmāṇḍadhārakāṇāṃ tat … Therein, when that comes to its end for Rudra, there is the attainment of the state of…
- 36 śatarudrakṣaye brahmāṇḍavināśaḥ At the dissolution of the hundred Rudras comes the destruction of the cosmic egg.
- 37 evaṃ jalatattvāt avyaktāntam etad eva krameṇa rudrāṇām āyuḥ In this way, from the water-principle up to the Unmanifest, this very (reckoning), in…
- 38 pūrvasyāyur uttarasya dinam iti The lifespan of the prior one is a single day of the latter.
- 39 tataś ca brahmā rudrāś ca abādyadhikāriṇaḥ avyakte tiṣṭhanti … And thereafter Brahmā and the Rudras, the officiants beginning with the water-principle,…
- 40 śrīkaṇṭhanāthaś ca tadā saṃhartā And the Lord Śrīkaṇṭha is then the one who withdraws (the world).
- 41 eṣo 'vāntarapralayaḥ tatkṣaye sṛṣṭiḥ This is an intermediate dissolution;
- 42 tatra śāstrāntaram uktā api sṛjyante Therein, even those spoken of in another scripture are emanated anew.
- 43 yat tu śrīkaṇṭhanāthasya svam āyuḥ tat kañcukavāsināṃ rudrāṇāṃ … Now, what is the own lifespan of the Lord Śrīkaṇṭha is a single day of the Rudras…
- 44 punaḥ gahaneśaḥ sṛjati Again Gahaneśa emanates (the world).
- 45 evaṃ yaḥ avyaktakālaḥ taṃ daśabhiḥ parārdhaiḥ guṇayitvā māyādinaṃ … Thus, the duration of the Unmanifest — having multiplied it by ten parārdhas, one should…
- 46 sa eva pralayaḥ That very (night) is the dissolution.
- 47 māyākālaḥ parārdhaśatena guṇita aiśvaratattve dinam The duration of māyā, multiplied by a hundred parārdhas, is a single day in the Īśvara…
- 48 atra prāṇo jagat sṛjati tāvatī rātriḥ yatra prāṇapraśamaḥ … Here the breath emanates the world, and the night is of equal length, in which there is…
- 49 aiśvare kāle parārdhaśataguṇite yā saṅkhyā tat sādāśivaṃ dinaṃ … The number that results when the Īśvara duration is multiplied by a hundred parārdhas —…
- 50 sadāśivaḥ svakālaparikṣaye bindvardhacandranirodhikā ākramya nāde līyate nādaḥ śaktitattve … Sadāśiva, at the expiry of his own duration, having ascended through bindu, ardhacandra,…
- 51 śaktikālena parārdhakoṭiguṇitena anāśritadinam By the duration of Śakti multiplied by a koṭi of parārdhas, there is a day of the…
- 52 anāśritaḥ sāmanase pade yat tat sāmanasyaṃ sāmyaṃ tat … The Anāśrita (dissolves) in the Sāmanasa station;
- 53 asmāt sāmanasyāt akalyāt kālāt nimeṣonmeṣamātratayā proktāśeṣakālaprasarapravilayacakrabhramodayaḥ From this Sāmanasa, the uncomputable Time, merely by a closing and opening (of the eye),…
- 54 ekaṃ daśa śataṃ sahasram ayutaṃ lakṣaṃ niyutaṃ koṭiḥ … One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million,…
- 55 evam asaṅkhyāḥ sṛṣṭipralayāḥ ekasmin mahāsṛṣṭirūpe prāṇe so 'pi … Thus, innumerable creations and dissolutions occur in a single breath that has the form…
- 56 tata eva svapnasaṅkalpādau vaicitryam asya na virodhāvaham For that very reason, the diversity of this (time-experience) in dream, imagination, and…
- 57 evaṃ yathā prāṇe kālodayaḥ tathā apāne 'pi hṛdayāt … Thus, just as there is the arising of Time in the prāṇa, so too in the apāna — from the…
- 58 yathā ca hṛtkaṇṭhatālulalāṭarandhradvādaśānteṣu brahmaviṣṇurudreśasadāśivānāśritākhyaṃ kāraṇaṣaṭkam tathaiva apāne 'pi … And just as, at the heart, throat, palate, brow, cranial aperture, and dvādaśānta, there…
- 59 atha samāne kālodayaḥ Now, the arising of Time in the samāna.
- 60 samāno hārdīṣu daśāsu nāḍīṣu sañcaran samaste dehe sāmyena … The samāna, circulating in the ten channels that emanate from the heart, evenly conveys…
- 61 ūrdhvādhas tu sañcaran tisṛṣu nāḍīṣu gatāgataṃ karoti But circulating upward and downward in the three channels, it performs its going and…
- 62 tatra viṣuvaddine bāhye prabhātakāle sapādāṃ ghaṭikāṃ madhyamārge vahati Therein, on the external equinoctial day, at the time of dawn, it flows in the central…
- 63 tato navaśatāni prāṇavikṣepāṇām iti gaṇanayā bahiḥ sārdhaghaṭikādvayaṃ vāme … Then, by the reckoning of nine hundred emissions of the breath, externally over two and a…
- 64 tataḥ saṅkrāntipañcake vṛtte pādonāsu caturdaśasu ghaṭikāsu atikrāntāsu dakṣiṇaṃ … Then, when the set of five passages is complete and fourteen ghaṭikās less a quarter have…
- 65 tato 'pi dakṣiṇe vāme dakṣiṇe vāme dakṣiṇe iti … Then again, in the right, in the left, in the right, in the left, in the right — such is…
- 66 evaṃ viṣuvaddivase tadrātrau ca dvādaśa dvādaśa saṅkrāntayaḥ Thus on the equinoctial day and in its night there are twelve passages each.
- 67 tato dinavṛddhikṣayeṣu saṅkrāntivṛddhikṣayaḥ Then, in the lengthening and shortening of the days, there is a corresponding increase…
- 68 evam ekasmin samānamaruti varṣadvayaṃ śvāsapraśvāsayogābhāvāt Thus in a single samāna-wind there is a span of two years, because it is unconnected with…
- 69 atrāpi dvādaśābdodayādi pūrvavat Here too the arising of twelve years and so on is as before.
- 70 udāne tu dvādaśāntāvadhiś cāraḥ spandamātrātmanaḥ kālasya But in the udāna, the course of Time — whose nature is mere vibration — is bounded by the…
- 71 atrāpi pūrvavat vidhiḥ Here too the procedure is as before.
- 72 vyāne tu vyāpakatvāt akrame 'pi sūkṣmocchalattāyogena kālodayaḥ But in the vyāna, owing to its pervasiveness, although it is sequenceless, the arising of…
- 73 atha varṇodayaḥ Now, the arising of the phonemes.
- 74 tatra ardhaprahare ardhaprahare vargodayo viṣuvati samaḥ varṇasya varṇasya … Therein, in each half-watch there is the arising of a phoneme-class, equal at the…
- 75 yatnajas tu mantrodayaḥ araghaṭṭaghaṭīyantravāhanavat ekānusandhibalāt citraṃ mantrodayaṃ divāniśam … But the arising of the mantra is born of effort: like the working of the pots on a…
- 76 tatra sadodite prāṇacārasaṅkhyayaiva udayasaṅkhyā vyākhyātā taddviguṇite tadardham ityādi … Therein, in the ever-arisen cycle, the number of arisings is explained precisely by the…
- 77 kālabheda eva saṃvedanabhedakaḥ na vedyabhedaḥ śikharasthajñānavat jñānasya yāvān … It is difference of time alone that differentiates cognitions, not difference of the…
- 78 yad āha tasyādita udāttam ardhahrasvam iti As (the authority) has said: "its raised accent, from the beginning, is half-short.
- 79 tasmāt spandāntaraṃ yāvat na uditaṃ tāvat ekam eva … Therefore, as long as another vibration has not arisen, there is just a single cognition.
- 80 ata eva ekāśīti padasmaraṇasamaye vividhadharmānupraveśamukhena eka eva asau … For this very reason, at the time of recollecting the eighty-one words, by way of the…
- 81 evam akhilaṃ kālādhvānaṃ prāṇodaya eva paśyan sṛṣṭisaṃhārāṃś ca … Thus, seeing the entire path of Time within the arising of the breath itself, and…
- 82 saṃvidrūpasyātmanaḥ prāṇaśaktiṃ paśyan rūpaṃ tatragaṃ cātikālam | sākaṃ … Beholding the power of the breath belonging to the Self whose nature is consciousness,…