Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam / The means and the close (उपाय) / 18
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the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam (प्रत्यभिज्ञाहृदयम्)
विकल्पक्षयशक्तिसंकोचविकासवाहच्छेदाद्यन्तकोटिनिभालनादयेहोपायाः vikalpakṣayaśaktisaṃkocavikāsavāhacchedādyantakoṭinibhālanādayehopāyāḥ
The line
Dissolving constructs, contracting power, opening, cutting the current, beholding the first and last edges, and others, are the means here.
नेपालीमा
विकल्प नाश, शक्तिको संकोच, विकास, प्रवाह छेदन, आदि र अन्त्यको कोटि हेर्नु, र अरू पनि, यहाँ उपाय हुन्।
Where it sits
The sūtra (सूत्र) lists means and does not walk through them. The page stops at the list. 19 is what those means are for: a samādhi (समाधि) that stays when one has risen.
Split: vikalpakṣayaśaktisaṃkocavikāsavāhacchedādyantakoṭinibhālanādayaḥ (विकल्पक्षयशक्तिसंकोचविकासवाहच्छेदाद्यन्तकोटिनिभालनादयः) + iha (इह) + upāyāḥ (उपायाः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| vikalpakṣayaśaktisaṃkocavikāsavāhacchedādyantakoṭinibhālanādayaḥ (विकल्पक्षयशक्तिसंकोचविकासवाहच्छेदाद्यन्तकोटिनिभालनादयः) | nominative plural, masculine | the dissolution of mental constructs, the contraction of power, the opening, the cutting of the current, the beholding of the first and last edges, and others. vikalpa (विकल्प) is a constructing thought. kṣaya (क्षय) is dissolution. śaktisaṃkoca (शक्तिसंकोच) is the contraction of power. vikāsa (विकास) is opening. vāhaccheda (वाहच्छेद) is the cutting of the current. ādyantakoṭi (आद्यन्तकोटि) is the edge of the beginning and of the end. nibhālana (निभालन) is beholding. ādi (आदि) means and the rest. Recited ādaya (आदय) before a vowel. |
| iha (इह) | indeclinable | here. In this teaching. |
| upāyāḥ (उपायाः) | nominative plural, masculine | the means. |
The phrases
The long nominative is upāyāḥ (उपायाः). iha (इह) limits them to this book. Five are named, and ādi (आदि) leaves the list open.
Sanskrit in this line
ādayaḥ (आदयः) plus iha (इह) is ādayeha (आदयेह): the visarga before i (इ) becomes e (ए). iha (इह) plus upāyāḥ (उपायाः) is ihopāyāḥ (इहोपायाः). The recited line joins them. The compound is one plural. Read the named means from the end, up to ādayaḥ (आदयः).
Say it back
Name the five means the compound lists before it says and others.