Bṛhattantrasāra - yoginīsādhana

Bṛhattantrasāra - yoginīsādhana

athātaḥ sampravakṣyāmi yoginīsādhanottamam
sarvārthasādhanaṃ nāma dehināṃ sarvasiddhidam
atiguhyā mahāvidyā devānāmapi durlabhā 53
yāsāmabhyarccanaṃ kṛtvā yakṣeśo.abhūddhanādhipaḥ
tāsāmādyāṃ pravakṣyāmi surāṇāṃ sundarīṃ priye
asyā abhyarcanenaiva rājatvaṃ labhate naraḥ 54

53. Now I will tell [about] the highest(ut-tama-) practice(sādhana-) of female deities(yoginī-)called(nāma) the all purposes practice(sarvārthasādhana-) that is conferring powers(siddhi-) to humans(dehin-).
This extremely secret(atiguhya-) great science(mahāvidya-), even for the gods(deva-) [is] difficult to obtain(durlabha-).


54. I will tell(pravakṣyāmi) to Sundarī, oh dear(priyā-), [that] of whose(yā-) worship(abhyarcchana-) he is doing(kṛtvā) [he] becomes(abhūt) the master over demons(yakṣeśa-) that guard the treasures of these(tāsām) goddesses(surā-).

By the very(eva) worship(abhyarcchana-) of her(asyā) the man(nara-) obtain(labhate) sovereignity(rāja-tva-).

I am not very happy with the verse 54, so please comment on it. I had troubles fitting Accusative of Sundarī in it.

Signs of blamable guru in Bṛhattantrasāra

I have started to look through this text few days ago and picked the part that seemed at the moment an interesting one. In the mean time I changed my mind because of abundance of physical signs considered. A bit disappointing for my taste. The difficulty of the text, for me as a beginner, comes from the variety of styles employed by the texts quoted in this huge work.

Here is the Sanskrit text considered:

atha nindyagurulakṣaṇam :

kriyāsāra samuccaye :
śvitrī caiva galatkuṣṭho netrarogī ca vāmanaḥ |
kunakhī śyāvadantaśca strījitaścādhikāṅgakaḥ || 21 ||
hīnāṅgaḥ kapaṭo rogī bahvāśī bahujalpakaḥ |
etairdoṣairvimukto yaḥ sa guruḥ śiṣyasammataḥ || 22 ||

yāmale :
abhiśaptamaputrañca kadaryaṃ kitavaṃ tathā
kriyāhīnaṃ śaṭhañcāpi vāmanaṃ gurunindakam || 23 ||
jalaraktavikrārañca varjayenmatimān sadā |
sadā matsarasaṃyuktaṃ guruṃ tantreṇa varjayet || 24 ||

vaiśampāyana saṃhitām :
aputromṛtaputraśca kuṇṭhī ca vāmanastathā |
ityādyapi bodhyamiti || 25 ||

And the translation. I will not analyze the text word by word because is not much to analyze.

Now, the signs of blamable guru:
21-22
In The compendium on the essence (sāra) of rite:
[Having] white spots on skin or aggravated white spots and eye sickness and [is] dwarfish and having bad nails and dark(bad?) teeth and subdued by women and having some redundant member,
crippled, cheating, many sicknesses, very talkative he who is free of these vices [should be considered guru] by the disciple.

In yāmala:
23-24
Defamed and son-less, avaricious, gambler, in the same way having the business lost and even deceitful, dwarfish and who blame [other] gurus,
and [suffering of] alteration of blood or urine, the intelligent should always avoid. Always the guru attached to intoxicants he should avoid by [the prescriptions of this] tantra.

In vaiśampāyana saṃhitā
25. Son-less and with deceased sons and stupid and dwarfish this kind and others are to be considered.