Declension -u

mṛdu 'soft'

	masc.	neut.	fem.
	Singular
N.	mṛdu-ḥ	mṛdu	mṛdu-ḥ
Ac.	mṛdu-m	mṛdu	mṛdu-m
I.	mṛdu-n-ā	mṛdu-n-ā	mṛdv-ā
D.	mṛdav-e	mṛdu-n-e	mṛdv-ai
Ab.	mṛd-oḥ	mṛdu-n-aḥ	mṛdv-āḥ
G.	mṛd-oḥ	mṛdu-n-aḥ	mṛdv-āḥ
L.	mṛd-au	mṛdu-n-i	mṛdv-ām
V.	mṛdo	mṛdu	mṛdo
	Dual
N.	mṛdū	mṛdu-n-ī	mṛdū
Ac.	mṛdū	mṛdu-n-ī	mṛdū
I.	mṛdu-bhyām	mṛdu-bhyām	mṛdu-bhyām
D.	mṛdu-bhyām	mṛdu-bhyām	mṛdu-bhyām
Ab.	mṛdu-bhyām	mṛdu-bhyām	mṛdu-bhyām
G.	mṛdv-oḥ	mṛdu-n-oḥ	mṛdv-oḥ
L.	mṛdv-oḥ	mṛdu-n-oḥ	mṛdv-oḥ
V.	mṛdū	mṛdu-n-ī	mṛdū
	Plural
N.	mṛdav-aḥ	mṛdū-n-i	mṛdav-aḥ
Ac.	mṛdūn	mṛdū-n-i	mṛdūḥ
I.	mṛdu-bhiḥ	mṛdu-bhiḥ	mṛdu-bhiḥ
D.	mṛdu-bhyaḥ	mṛdu-bhyaḥ	mṛdu-bhyaḥ
Ab.	mṛdu-bhyaḥ	mṛdu-bhyaḥ	mṛdu-bhyaḥ
G.	mṛdū-n-ām	mṛdū-n-ām	mṛdū-n-ām
L.	mṛdu-ṣu	mṛdu-ṣu	mṛdu-ṣu
V.	mṛdav-aḥ	mṛdū-n-i	mṛdav-aḥ

Declension - i

śuci 'pure'

	masc.	neut.	fem.
	Singular
N.	śuci-ḥ	śuc-i	śuci-ḥ
Ac.	śuci-m	śuc-i	śuci-m
I.	śuci-n-ā	śuci-n-ā	śucy-ā
D.	śuc-ay-e	śuci-n-e	śucy-ai
Ab.	śuc-eḥ	śuci-n-aḥ	śucy-āḥ
G.	śuc-eḥ	śuci-n-aḥ	śucy-āḥ
L.	śuc-au	śuci-n-i	śucy-ām
V.	śuce	śuci	śuce
	Dual
N.	śucī	śuci-n-ī	śucī
Ac.	śucī	śuci-n-ī	śucī
I.	śuci-bhyām	śuci-bhyām	śuci-bhyām
D.	śuci-bhyām	śuci-bhyām	śuci-bhyām
Ab.	śuci-bhyām	śuci-bhyām	śuci-bhyām
G.	śucy-oḥ	śuci-n-oḥ	śucy-eḥ
L.	śucy-oḥ	śuci-n-oḥ	śucy-eḥ
V.	śucī	śuci-n-ī	śucī
	Plural
N.	śucay-aḥ	śucī-n-i	śucay-aḥ
Ac.	śucīn	śucī-n-i	śucīḥ
I.	śuci-bhiḥ	śuci-bhiḥ	śuci-bhiḥ
D.	śuci-bhyaḥ	śuci-bhyaḥ	śuci-bhyaḥ
Ab.	śuci-bhyaḥ	śuci-bhyaḥ	śuci-bhyaḥ
G.	śucī-n-ām	śucī-n-ām	śucī-n-ām
L.	śuci-ṣu	śuci-ṣu	śuci-ṣu
V.	śucay-aḥ	śucī-n-i	śucay-aḥ

Two more ślokas from Hevajra Tantra

The sanskrit text:
yena yena hi badhyante jantavo raudrakarmaṇā |
sopāyena tu tenaiva mucyante bhavabandhanāt ||

rāgeṇa badhyate loko rāgeṇaiva vimucyate |
viparītabhāvanā hyeṣā na jñātā buddhatīrthakaiḥ ||
(he. ta. II.2.50-51)

yena=I. sg. by which;
hi= certainly;
badhyante=ps.3. pl. are bound;
jantavaḥ=N. pl. living beings;
raudrakarmaṇā=I. sg. by terrible magic rite;
sopāyena=I. sg. by being accompanied;
tu=but;
tena=I.sg. by that;
eva=very;
muncyante=ps. 3. pl are freed;
bhavabandhanāt=Ab. sg. from the binding of existence;

rāgeṇa=I.sg. by passion;
badhyate=ps. 3. sg=is tied;
lokaḥ=the world;
rāgeṇa=I.sg. by passion;
eva=aug.;
vimucyate=ps. 3. sg is freed;
viparītabhāvanā=N.f.sg. reversed/inverted producing/causality;
hi=indeed;
eṣā=N.f.sg. that;
na=not;
jñātā=N.f.sg known;
buddhatīrthakaiḥ=I. pl. "tantraphobic" Buddhists.

Few notes here. I initially translated buddhatīrthaka by "non Buddhists" because I found in the dictionary "MW - an adherent or head of any other than one's own creed Buddh. Jain." as a meaning for tīrthika. I had some doubts from the very start but I had to translate it one way or the other. Now, thanks to Mr. Iain Sinclair who took some time to comment on this issue on his blog, I adopted the current translation.

The english translation:
50.
By terrible magical act by which certainly
the living beings are bound
accompanied by the that very [act]
they are freed from the binding of the existence.
51.
By passion the world is tied,
by passion also it is freed.
This inverted causality
is not known by "tantraphobic" Buddhists.

Hevajra tantra śloka

ekārākṛti yaddivyaṃ madhyevaṃkāra bhūṣitam |
ālayaḥ sarvasaukhyānāṃ buddharatnakaraṇḍakam ||
(he.ta. II.3.4)

ekārākṛti=N. sg. the shape of the letter "e";
yad=N.sg. which;
divyaṃ=N. sg. celestial, divine;
madhye=L. sg. in the center;
vaṃkāra=the sillable vaṃ;
bhūṣitam=N. adorned;
ālayaḥ=N. sg. dwelling, house;
sarvasaukhyānāṃ=G.pl.of all enjoyments;
buddha-ratna-karaṇḍakam=N. sg. the basket of Buddha jewels;

Here is mine translation of this sanskrit verse:

The divine shape of the letter "e",
which is in the center [and] adorned by "vaṃ" sillable
is the dwelling of all enjoynments,
the basket of Buddha jewels.

A śloka a day

I start today an ambitious enterprise to exercise the translation of a śloka each day.
Today's śloka is from Bhagavad-Gītā

Arjuna uvāca
kiṃ tadbrahma kimadhyātmaṃ kiṃ karma puruṣottama |
adhibhūtaṃ ca kiṃ proktamadhidaivaṃ kimucyate || BG 8.1

Arjuna=proper name
uvāca=pf. 3. sg. said
kim=what...?
tad=N.sg. that
brahma=N.sg. Brahman
adhy-ātmam=N.sg. supreme Self
karma=N.sg. the rite
puruṣottama=V.sg. the greatest of the men
adhibhūtam=N.sg. essence of the beings
ca=and
proktam=pp N.sg. understood
adhi-daivam=N.sg. essence of gods
ucyate=ps.3.sg. is called


Arjuna said:
What is that Brahman? What is the Supreme Self?
What is the rite, oh, the greatest of the man!?
What is understood by the essence of beings,
what is called the essence of gods?

Declension - a

kānta/ā 'beloved' (past participle of kam, 'love')

	masc.	neut.	fem.
	Singular
N.	kāntaḥ	kāntam	kāntā
Ac.	kāntam	kāntam	kāntām
I.	kāntena	kāntena	kāntayā
D.	kāntāya	kāntāya	kāntāyai
Ab.	kāntāt	kāntāt	kantāyāḥ
G.	kāntasya	kāntasya	kāntāyāḥ
L.	kānte	kānte	kāntāyām
V.	kānta	kānta	kānte
	Dual
N.	kāntau	kānte	kānte
Ac.	kāntau	kānte	kānte
I.	kāntābhyām	kāntābhyām	kāntābhyām
D.	kāntābhyām	kāntābhyām	kāntābhyām
Ab.	kāntābhyām	kāntābhyām	kāntābhyām
G.	kāntayoḥ	kāntayoḥ	kāntayoḥ
L.	kāntayoḥ	kāntayoḥ	kāntayoḥ
V.	kāntau	kānte	kānte
	Plural
N.	kāntāḥ	kāntāni	kāntāḥ
Ac.	kāntān	kāntāni	kāntāḥ
I.	kāntaiḥ	kāntaiḥ	kāntābhiḥ
D.	kāntebhyaḥ	kāntebhyaḥ	kāntābhyaḥ
Ab.	kāntebhyaḥ	kāntebhyaḥ	kāntābhyaḥ
G.	kāntānām	kāntānām	kāntānām
L.	kānteṣu	kānteṣu	kāntāsu
V.	kāntāḥ	kāntāni	kāntāḥ

Few academic resources on Vajrayana

The Vajrayana Research Resource. Here you can find huge resource on tantric Buddhism.
Dhīḥ journals - Table of Contents - Sarnath Buddhist Research Institute very useful if you want to order.
Yo can order them and much more on www.bibliaimpex.com.

Centre for Tantric Studies

Verb paradigms

Since pretty often I am in the need of some handy online paradigms, I decided to post them on the internet.
Here are the thematic paradigms - Parasmaipada
Present:

	sg.	du.	pl.
1.	bhavāmi	bhavāvaḥ	bhavāmaḥ
2.	bhavasi	bhavathaḥ	bhavatha
3.	bhavati	bhavataḥ	bhavanti

Imperfect:

	sg.	du.	pl.
1.	abhavam	abhavāva	abhavāma
2.	abhavaḥ	abhavatam	abhavata
3.	abhavat	abhavatām	abhavan

Optative:

	sg.	du.	pl.
1.	bhaveyam	bhaveva	bhavema
2.	bhaveḥ	bhavetam	bhaveta
3.	bhavet	bhavetām	bhaveyuḥ

Imperative:

	sg.	du.	pl.
1.	bhavāni	bhavāva	bhavāma
2.	bhava	bhavatam	bhavata
3.	bhavatu	bhavatām	bhavantu

A piece of tantric ritual

I'll give here a bit of the ritual from Vajrabhairavatantra. This ritual extends in the entire second chapter but I'll translate only two phrases.

Here is the Sanskrit text:
..............
tatredaṃ karma yadā sādhayitukāmaḥ tadā śmaśānakarpaṭe viṣarudhireṇa lavaṇarājikānimbadhutturakarasena idaṃ ṣoḍaśakoṣṭhaṃ mahāvajrabhairavacakraṃ bṛhatkākasya pakṣeṇa lekhanyā [narāsti lekhanyā] vā dakṣiṇābhimukho nagno muktaśikho bhūtvā mahiṣamukhayogena likhet |
...............
pūrvokta saha dravyeṇa¹ (pūrvoktadravyeṇa saha) kākocchiṣṭena vairocanena śmaśānakarpaṭe stambhayitvā(tib. abhyaṅgaya) tatra likhet cakraṃ pūrvoktavidhānena
...............

Now the translation:

Next this rite. When the performer desire then on the garments of the cremation ground, using blood poisoned by a juice of salt, mustard(sk. rājikā, lat Sinapis Ramosa), thorn apple (dhusturaka/Datura), neem (nimba), with a quill from a big crow or a pen, being naked, with the hair in disorder and facing south he should draw this 16 room wheel of the great vajrabhairava.
....................
Having rubbed [himself] with the substance previously specified, food remains of a crow, urine (sk. vairocana code name for urine) on the pyre garments he should draw there the wheel(cakra) with the disposition previously described.


Note 1:
"pūrvoktadravya" here might be "kaṭutaila" which might mean 'stinky oil' or 'sour oil' cf MW 'white mustard'. However Bulcsu Siklos translated this form Tibetan as "warm butter".

Yogāvatāraḥ - 1

namastārāyai

śrutvā śāstramudāraṁ niścitya pāramārthikaṁ tattvam|

mṛdvāsanopaviṣṭaḥ saśraddho yogamārabhed [yogī]||1||

namas=obeisance; tārāyai=D. sg. to [godess] Tārā

śrutvā=hearing; śāstram=recitation; udāraṁ=excelent; niścitya=being convinced; pāramārthikaṁ=N. sg. one who cares for truth; tattvam=Ac. sg. the truth (N. sg. the real);

mṛdv-āsana-upaviṣṭaḥ=N sg. soft-sitting-seated; saśraddho=N. sg. confident; yogam=Ac. sg. yoga [teaching]; ārabhed=opt. 3 sg. [he] should undertake [yogī] =N. sg. [the yogi]

Obeisance to [goddess] Tārā

[After] hearing the excellent recitation (śāstram) [and] being convinced, the real (tattvam) [yogi] who cares for truth (pāramārthikaṁ) [being] seated on a soft seat (mṛdvāsanopaviṣṭaḥ), confident should undertake yoga [practice].

Note: For this translation exercise I used the text from Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon

Coulson reloaded

Couple of days ago I was planning to set aside [for awhile] the Coulson's "Teach yourself...", when a friend came and forced me to a second though. Here is one of the exercises from Coulson "reloaded":

Cap. 13
Relative adverbs continued

bakula-māle upakāriṇy asi, yataḥ svāgataṃ bhavatyāḥ

bakula-māle=V.sg. from bakula-mālā = bakula garland
upakāriṇy = upakāriṇi = V.sg. from upakāriṇī=ally, friend
asi=II sg. pres. from as=you are
yataḥ = adv. rel. for which reason
svāgataṃ = su-āgataṃ= welcome
bhavatyāḥ = G.sg. from bhavatī= of You

Bakula garland, you are [my] friend, that's why I welcome you!

Pretty simple isn't it?
Not for me. At a first try I got upakāriṇy as locative of upakārin which makes no sense for me. Beside this, is pretty strange that someone is talking to a garland. :D