Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 24–50 (उपदेश) / 48
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
देहान्तरे त्वग्विभागम् भित्तिभूतं विचिन्तयेत् ।
न किंचिदन्तरे तस्य ध्यायन्नध्येयभाग् भवेत् dehāntare tvagvibhāgam bhittibhūtaṃ vicintayet |
na kiṃcid antare tasya dhyāyann adhyeyabhāg bhavet
The line
Inside the body, one should contemplate the division of the skin as become a wall. Nothing is inside it. Meditating, one would become a sharer of what is meditated.
नेपालीमा
शरीरभित्र छालाको विभाग भित्ता भएको सम्झनु। त्यसभित्र केही छैन। ध्यान गर्दै गएपछि ध्यान गरिएको वस्तुको भागी हुन्छ।
Where it sits
The wall was already a place at 33. Here the skin itself is the wall, and the inside is the verse's na kiṃcit (न किंचित्).
Split: dehāntare (देहान्तरे) + tvagvibhāgam (त्वग्विभागम्) + bhittibhūtam (भित्तिभूतम्) + vicintayet (विचिन्तयेत्) + na (न) + kiṃcit (किंचित्) + antare (अन्तरे) + tasya (तस्य) + dhyāyan (ध्यायन्) + adhyeyabhāj (अध्येयभाज्) + bhavet (भवेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| dehāntare (देहान्तरे) | locative singular, neuter | inside the body. |
| tvagvibhāgam (त्वग्विभागम्) | accusative singular, masculine | the division of the skin. tvac (त्वच्) is skin. |
| bhittibhūtam (भित्तिभूतम्) | accusative singular, masculine | become a wall. bhitti (भित्ति) is a wall. |
| vicintayet (विचिन्तयेत्) | optative | one should contemplate. |
| na (न) | the verse's na (न) | nothing. |
| kiṃcit (किंचित्) | nominative singular, neuter | anything. With na (न), nothing. |
| antare (अन्तरे) | locative singular, neuter | inside. |
| tasya (तस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of that. |
| dhyāyan (ध्यायन्) | nominative singular, masculine | meditating. |
| adhyeyabhāj (अध्येयभाज्) | nominative singular, masculine | a sharer of what is to be meditated. adhyeya (अध्येय) is the gerundive of dhyai (ध्यै). Recited adhyeyabhāg (अध्येयभाग्). |
| bhavet (भवेत्) | optative | one would become. |
The phrases
The skin is contemplated as a wall. The verse's na kiṃcit (न किंचित्) says nothing is inside that. The meditator becomes a sharer of the thing meditated.
Sanskrit in this line
tvac (त्वच्) plus vibhāga (विभाग) becomes tvagvibhāga (त्वग्विभाग). c (च्) before a voiced consonant becomes g (ग्).
Say it back
Say what the skin becomes, and what the verse says is inside.