Abhinava on knowledge and ignorance

iha jñānaṃ mokṣakāraṇaṃ bandhanimittasya ajñānasya virodhakatvāt dvividhaṃ ca ajñānaṃ buddhigataṃ pauruṣaṃ ca tatra buddhigatam aniścayasvabhāvaṃ viparītaniścayātmakaṃ ca /

Here the knowledge is the cause of liberation because is being the opponent of ignorance which is the reason of bondage and the ignorance is twofold: in the intellect and humane; there, the intellectual is of nature of non-knowledge (a-niścaya) and wrong/reversed knowledge(viparīta-niścaya).

pauruṣaṃ tu vikalpasvabhāvaṃ saṃkucitaprathātmakaṃ tad eva ca mūlakāraṇaṃ saṃsārasya iti vakṣyāmo malanirṇaye /

But the humane [ignorance] is of nature of imagination and contracted expansion; "and this one is the root cause of transmigration (saṃsāra)" we will say in the discussion on impurity.

(Abhinavagupta - Tantra Sāra)

The Śaiva Age

A new article by professor Alexis Sanderson is now available on his site. The Śaiva Age is part of a bigger work named Genesis and development of Tantrism, the result of collaboration of great scholars in the field and published at the University of Tokyo.

Tokyo manuscript nr. 516 - part 3

The last part is now done. I must thank to PDSz for take the time to standardize the input and thus greatly helping me.

Here is the input:

Page 3
line 1:
puṣṭikarīsarvvabhītyaprahāriṇī sarvvarakṣāṃ sarvvajayavināvināśinī | sarvvamaṃgalamāṃgalyāśivā
line 2:
sarvvāsarvvārthasādhanīṃ mohiṃ parasamtrāśāṃbhedinīkṣābhiṇītathā || paramantratantrayantraviṣa
line 3:
cūrṇṇasarvvaprayogādīnām anyeṣāṃ yat kṛtaṃ kālitaṃ tanmastakanipatinīṃ sarvvahiṃsāmāka-
line 4:
rṣiṇī | ahitāṇāṃ canāśinīduṣṭātmanāṃ canāśinīṃ yat karoti yat kiñcit kariṣyati vi-
line 5:
rūpakaṃ kārayati vā anumodayati vā karmmaṇām anasāvācāyedevāsurarākṣasāsti
line 6:
yakṣapretasarvvahiṃsakāvirūpakaṃ kurvvaṃti mamamantratantrayantracūrṇṇasarvvaprayogādī

Page 4
line 1:
nāmānmahastena vā yaḥ karoti kariṣyati vā tān sarvvān | dheṣāṃnivartti
line 2:
-tvā yataṃtimastake || || iti śrī mahābhyairavatantre viparītapratyaṃgirā samaptaḥ || ||

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Tokyo manuscript nr. 516 - part 2

The second page is over now. The first page was checked and emended by I.S., PDSz and SDV. You can find bellow the e-text of both pages. The last two lines of the first and the second page still needs to be checked by someone more experienced. I've used red bold color for the parts I am not sure about.

Page 1:
line 1:
[śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || atha viparītapratyaṃgirā || oṃ asya +viparīta+pratyaṃgirāmantrasya bhairava ṛṣir anuṣṭup cchandaḥ pratyaṃgirā deva (for devatā)]
line 2:
[aṣṭottaraśatamantrasyāsya prakīrttiteti || sarvvaiḥ kṛṣṇopacāraiś ca dhyāyet pratyaṃgirāṃ śubhāṃ | ṭaṃkaṃ kapālaṃ ḍamaruṃ triśū-]
line 3:
[-laṃ saṃbibhratī candrakarīva* taṃsāṃ | piṃgorddhvakeśī sitabhīmadaṃṣṭrā bhūyād vibhūtyai mama bhadrakālī || 1 || evaṃ dhyātvā jape-]
line 4:
[-n mantram ekaviṃśativāsaraṃ | śatrūnāṃ nāśanaṃ hy etat prakāśo yaṃ suniścitaṃ || 2 || aṣṭamyām arddharātrau tu saratkāle]
line 5:
[mahāniśi || ārādhitā cen mahākālī tatkṣaṇāt siddhidā bhavet || sarvvopacārapannāye vastraratnaphalādibhiḥ | puṣpai-]
line 6:
[s tu kṛṣṇavarṇais tu sādhayet kālikāṃ parāṃ || 4 || varṣādurddhamajaṃmeṣaṃ mṛgaṃ vāthayathāvidhi | dadyāt purvvamaheśāni tataś ca ja-]
line 7:
[-pam ācaret || 5 || ekāhāt siddhidākālī satyaṃ satyaṃ na saṃśayaḥ | mūlamantreṇa rātrau ca homaṃ kuryyāt samāhitaḥ || 6 || ma-]
line 8:
[-līcalājāhomaiś ca sārṣapairmmāraṇaṃ bhavet | mahāvarapade caiva na bhayaṃ vidyate kvacit || 7 || pretapiṃḍaṃ samādāya go-]

* Em: candrakarīva taṃsāṃ > candrakalāvataṃsā
"with the crescent moon as an ornament". SDV

Page 2:
line 1:
[-lakaṃ kārayettamaḥ | kitaṃ kṛtvā śatrūmāyāṃ ca putalīṃ || 8 || jivaṃ tatranidhāyaivaṃ citāvahnoXnetataḥ | tatrāyuta]
line 2:
[japaṃ kṛtvātrirātrānmāraṇaṃ ripoḥ || 9 || mahājvālābhavet asya taXXtāṃmraśalākayā | guḍadvārepravesyāsya saptāhānmā-]
line 3:
[-raṇaṃ ripoḥ || 10 || pratyaṃgirāmahāproktāpaṭhitāpāṭhitānaraiḥ | likhitvā cakare kaṃṭhevāhośirasi dhārayet || 11 || mu-]
line 4:
[-cyate sarvvapāpebhyo nāpamṛtyuṃ kadācana | grahā jhakṣāstathā siddhā sayajoragarājasāḥ || 12 || na tasya pīḍāṃ kurvvaṃti di-]
line 5:
[-vibhummantarikagāḥ | catuṣṭātheṣu geheṣu vaneṣu padaneṣu ca || 13 || śmaśānedurgamedyoresaṃgrāmeśatrusaṃgame || ||]
line 6:
[oṃ kṣrauṃ oṃ oṃ oṃ kuṃ kuṃ kuṃ māṃ sāṃ rāṃ khāṃ vāṃ lāṃ kṣāṃ oṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ oṃ oṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ vāṃ ṣāṃ māṃ rakṣāṃ kuru oṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ oṃ saḥ hūṃ oṃ kṣrauṃ vāṃ]
line 7:
[lāṃ ṣāṃ māṃ sāṃ oṃ kuṃ pluṃ rakṣāṃ kuru oṃ namo viparītapratyaṃgirāyai vidyā rajñī trailokyavasaṃkarī tuṣṭi-]
 



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Tokyo manuscript nr. 516 - part 1

n Matsunami catalog it is called "Collection of fragments" and the part I is ending with:
śrī-mahā-bhairava-tantre viparīta-pratyaṃgirā samāptaḥ
I have transcribed several lines from the first page and encountered difficulties in identifying few characters. Now I am asking for help from the more experienced readers; I have noted in my transcription with X the characters I am not sure about. Can anyone shed a bit of light on this issue?


[here is the transcript]
line 1:
śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ || atha viparītapratyaṃgirā || oṃ asyapratyaṃgirāmantrasya bhairavaṛṣir anuṣṭupcchandaḥ pratyaṃgirādeva
line 2:
aXttaraśatamantrasyāsyaprakīrttiteti || savvaiḥ kṛṣṇopacāraiśca dhyāyet pratyaṃgirāṃśubhāṃ | ṭaṃkaṃ kapālaṃ ḍamaruṃ triśu
line 3:
laṃ saṃvibhratīcandrakarīvataṃsāṃ | piṃśorddhakeṇositabhīmadaṃXbhūyādvibhūtyaimambhadrakālī || 1 || edamdhyātvājape
line 4:
nmantramekaviṃśativāsaraṃ | śatrūnāśanaṃXtataprakāśoyaṃsuniśyitaṃ || 2 || aṣṭamyāmarddharātrauXsaratkāle
line 5:
mahāniśi || ārādhitācenmahākālītatkṣaṇātsiddhidābhavet || sarvvopacārapannāyedamtraratnaphalādibhiḥ | puXX

Part 2
Part 3

Link to the entire manuscript

Indian manuscripts

A beautiful collection of Indian manuscripts and a praiseworthy project.

Here is a small sample:

Prof. Alexis Sanderson's review to Lilian Silburn translation to Sivasūtra

The original review.

Lilian Silburn : Sivasūtra et Vimarśinī de Kṣemarāja. (Études sur le Śivaisme du Cachemire, École Spanda.)
Traduc­tion et introduction. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, Serie in-8°, Fasc. 47.) viii, 193 pp., 1 plate. Paris : Institut de Civilisa­tion Indienne, 1980. (Distribution: Diffusion E. De Boccard, 11 rue de Medicis, Paris VIe.)

Trika Shaivism - Taditional side

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