Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 24–50 (उपदेश) / 27
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
कुम्भिता रेचिता वापि पूरिता वा यदा भवेत् ।
तदन्ते शान्तनामासौ शक्त्या शान्तः प्रकाशते kumbhitā recitā vāpi pūritā vā yadā bhavet |
tadante śāntanāmāsau śaktyā śāntaḥ prakāśate
The line
When she would be held, or exhaled, or filled, at the end of that, he whose name is peace shines as peace, by śakti (शक्ति).
नेपालीमा
जब उनी कुम्भित, वा रेचित, वा पूरित हुन्छिन्, त्यसको अन्त्यमा शान्त नामका उनी शक्तिद्वारा शान्त भएर चम्किन्छन्।
Where it sits
The three words are the verse's names for a breath that is held, let out, or filled. The page stays with the sentence. What shines is named śānta (शान्त).
Split: kumbhitā (कुम्भिता) + recitā (रेचिता) + vā (वा) + api (अपि) + pūritā (पूरिता) + vā (वा) + yadā (यदा) + bhavet (भवेत्) + tadante (तदन्ते) + śāntanāmā (शान्तनामा) + asau (असौ) + śaktyā (शक्त्या) + śāntaḥ (शान्तः) + prakāśate (प्रकाशते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| kumbhitā (कुम्भिता) | nominative singular, feminine | held as in a pot. Verbal adjective of kumbh (कुम्भ्). Later books call a retained breath kumbhaka (कुम्भक). The verse's word is kumbhitā (कुम्भिता). |
| recitā (रेचिता) | nominative singular, feminine | exhaled, released. From rec (रेच्). |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or. |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | also. |
| pūritā (पूरिता) | nominative singular, feminine | filled. |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or. |
| yadā (यदा) | indeclinable | when. |
| bhavet (भवेत्) | optative, third person singular | she would be. |
| tadante (तदन्ते) | locative singular, masculine | at the end of that. |
| śāntanāmā (शान्तनामा) | nominative singular, masculine | he whose name is peace. śānta (शान्त) is peaceful. nāman (नामन्) is a name. |
| asau (असौ) | nominative singular, masculine | that one. |
| śaktyā (शक्त्या) | instrumental singular, feminine | by śakti (शक्ति). |
| śāntaḥ (शान्तः) | nominative singular, masculine | peaceful. |
| prakāśate (प्रकाशते) | present, third person singular | shines. From pra (प्र) and kāś (काश्). |
The phrases
Three feminine adjectives are alternatives under yadā (यदा): held, exhaled, or filled. tadante (तदन्ते) is the moment after. asau (असौ) shines as śāntaḥ (शान्तः) by śaktyā (शक्त्या).
Sanskrit in this line
śāntanāmā (शान्तनामा) is a bahuvrīhi (बहुव्रीहि): he has peace as his name. The nominative of a stem in an (अन्) is ā (आ).
Say it back
Name the three states, and what the verse says shines at their end.