Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 24–50 (उपदेश) / 35
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
मध्यनाडी मध्यसंस्था बिससूत्राभरूपया ।
ध्यातान्तर्व्योमया देव्या तया देवः प्रकाशते madhyanāḍī madhyasaṃsthā bisasūtrābharūpayā |
dhyātāntarvyomayā devyā tayā devaḥ prakāśate
The line
The middle channel, standing in the middle, by the Goddess whose form is like a lotus fiber, meditated as the inner sky: by her the god shines.
नेपालीमा
बीचमा रहेकी मध्य नाडी, कमलको धागो जस्तै रूप भएकी देवीद्वारा, भित्री आकाश भएर ध्यान गरिँदा, देव चम्किनुहुन्छ।
Where it sits
The channel is named. The page stays with the sentence. It does not give a way of moving anything through it.
Split: madhyanāḍī (मध्यनाडी) + madhyasaṃsthā (मध्यसंस्था) + bisasūtrābharūpayā (बिससूत्राभरूपया) + dhyātā (ध्याता) + antarvyomayā (अन्तर्व्योमया) + devyā (देव्या) + tayā (तया) + devaḥ (देवः) + prakāśate (प्रकाशते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| madhyanāḍī (मध्यनाडी) | nominative singular, feminine | the middle channel. nāḍī (नाडी) is a channel. |
| madhyasaṃsthā (मध्यसंस्था) | nominative singular, feminine | standing in the middle. |
| bisasūtrābharūpayā (बिससूत्राभरूपया) | instrumental singular, feminine | by her whose form is like a lotus fiber. bisa (बिस) is a lotus stalk. sūtra (सूत्र) is a thread. ābha (आभ) is like, a semblance. |
| dhyātā (ध्याता) | nominative singular, feminine | meditated. Recited into dhyātāntar (ध्यातान्तर्). |
| antarvyomayā (अन्तर्व्योमया) | instrumental singular, feminine | by her who is the inner sky. vyoman (व्योमन्) is the sky. |
| devyā (देव्या) | instrumental singular, feminine | by the Goddess. |
| tayā (तया) | instrumental singular, feminine | by her. |
| devaḥ (देवः) | nominative singular, masculine | the god. |
| prakāśate (प्रकाशते) | present, third person singular | shines. |
The phrases
The middle channel is the nominative topic. The instrumentals say by what kind of Goddess he shines. devaḥ prakāśate (देवः प्रकाशते) is the result.
Sanskrit in this line
bisa (बिस), sūtra (सूत्र), and ābha (आभ) make one comparison compound: a semblance of a lotus thread. The case sits on rūpayā (रूपया).
Say it back
Say what the middle channel is compared to.