Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam / The round and the return (संसार) / 11
11
the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam (प्रत्यभिज्ञाहृदयम्)
आभासनरक्तिविमर्शनबीजावस्थापनविलापनतस् तानि ābhāsanaraktivimarśanabījāvasthāpanavilāpanatas tāni
The line
Those five acts are by shining, by relish, by reflective awareness, by setting the seed, and by dissolution.
नेपालीमा
ती पाँच कृत्य आभास, रक्ति, विमर्श, बीज स्थापना, र विलापनद्वारा हुन्छन्।
Where it sits
The commentary lines the five words up with emitting, staying, withdrawing, concealing, and grace. That lining-up is the commentary. The sūtra (सूत्र) gives these five names and the suffix tas (त).
Split: ābhāsanaraktivimarśanabījāvasthāpanavilāpanataḥ (आभासनरक्तिविमर्शनबीजावस्थापनविलापनतः) + tāni (तानि)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| ābhāsanaraktivimarśanabījāvasthāpanavilāpanataḥ (आभासनरक्तिविमर्शनबीजावस्थापनविलापनतः) | adverb in tas (त) | by shining, by relish, by reflective awareness, by setting down the seed, and by dissolution. ābhāsana (आभासन) is a shining forth. rakti (रक्ति) is relish, a staying with. vimarśana (विमर्शन) is the awareness that touches what appears. bījāvasthāpana (बीजावस्थापन) is setting the seed in place. vilāpana (विलापन) is making it dissolve. tas (त) means by means of. Recited tas (त) before t (त्). |
| tāni (तानि) | nominative plural, neuter | those. The five acts of 10. |
The phrases
The long word is the means. tāni (तानि) is the five acts. The acts are done by those five operations.
Sanskrit in this line
One compound, then tas (त). Before tāni (तानि) the s (स्) of tas (त) stays. Read the compound as five operations, not as five sentences.
Say it back
Name the five operations, in the order the compound gives them.