Vijñāna Bhairava / She asks the means (उपाय) / 22
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
देवदेव त्रिशूलाङ्क कपालकृतभूषण ।
दिग्देशकालशून्या च व्यपदेशविवर्जिता devadeva triśūlāṅka kapālakṛtabhūṣaṇa |
digdeśakālaśūnyā ca vyapadeśavivarjitā
The line
O god of gods, marked with the trident, ornamented with a skull: she is empty of direction, place, and time, and she is without a designation.
नेपालीमा
हे देवदेव, त्रिशूलको चिह्न भएका, कपालले सिँगारिएका! उहाँ दिशा, देश र कालबाट शून्य हुनुहुन्छ, र व्यपदेशरहित हुनुहुन्छ।
Where it sits
She speaks again. śrī devy uvāca (श्री देव्युवाच) stands before this verse. The feminine adjectives continue into the next number.
Split: devadeva (देवदेव) + triśūlāṅka (त्रिशूलाङ्क) + kapālakṛtabhūṣaṇa (कपालकृतभूषण) + digdeśakālaśūnyā (दिग्देशकालशून्या) + ca (च) + vyapadeśavivarjitā (व्यपदेशविवर्जिता)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| devadeva (देवदेव) | vocative singular, masculine | O god of gods. |
| triśūlāṅka (त्रिशूलाङ्क) | vocative singular, masculine | O you who are marked with the trident. triśūla (त्रिशूल) is the trident. aṅka (अङ्क) is a mark. |
| kapālakṛtabhūṣaṇa (कपालकृतभूषण) | vocative singular, masculine | O you whose ornament is made of a skull. kapāla (कपाल) is a skull. bhūṣaṇa (भूषण) is an ornament. |
| digdeśakālaśūnyā (दिग्देशकालशून्या) | nominative singular, feminine | empty of direction, place, and time. śūnya (शून्य) is empty. |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and. |
| vyapadeśavivarjitā (व्यपदेशविवर्जिता) | nominative singular, feminine | left without a designation. vivarjita (विवर्जित) is abandoned, left without. |
The phrases
Three vocatives address him in the form she can see: trident and skull. Two feminine nominatives describe the state, and they agree with yā avasthā (या अवस्था) in 23.
Sanskrit in this line
The vocatives are masculine, for Bhairava (भैरव). The predicates are feminine, for the state. The genders are doing two jobs in one verse.
Say it back
Point to the two genders and say which one addresses him.