Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 24–50 (उपदेश) / 50
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
सर्वतः स्वशरीरस्य द्वादशान्ते मनोलयात् ।
दृढबुद्धेर् दृढीभूतं तत्त्वलक्ष्यम् प्रवर्तते sarvataḥ svaśarīrasya dvādaśānte manolayāt |
dṛḍhabuddher dṛḍhībhūtaṃ tattvalakṣyam pravartate
The line
From the dissolution of the mind at the end of twelve, all around one's own body, for one whose intellect is firm, the target of reality, become firm, proceeds.
नेपालीमा
आफ्नो शरीरको चारैतिर, बाह्रको अन्त्यमा मनको लयबाट, दृढ बुद्धि भएकाको तत्त्वलक्ष्य दृढ भएर चल्छ।
Where it sits
dvādaśānta (द्वादशान्त) is this book's measure-word. 51 says to cast the mind there wherever one is. The page names the word. It does not give a way of measuring the body.
Split: sarvataḥ (सर्वतः) + svaśarīrasya (स्वशरीरस्य) + dvādaśānte (द्वादशान्ते) + manolayāt (मनोलयात्) + dṛḍhabuddheḥ (दृढबुद्धेः) + dṛḍhībhūtam (दृढीभूतम्) + tattvalakṣyam (तत्त्वलक्ष्यम्) + pravartate (प्रवर्तते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sarvataḥ (सर्वतः) | adverb in tas (त) | from every side, all around. |
| svaśarīrasya (स्वशरीरस्य) | genitive singular, neuter | of one's own body. |
| dvādaśānte (द्वादशान्ते) | locative singular, masculine | at the end of twelve. dvādaśa (द्वादश) is twelve. anta (अन्त) is the end. Readers of this tantra (तन्त्र) take the twelve as finger-breadths. |
| manolayāt (मनोलयात्) | ablative singular, masculine | from the dissolution of the mind. |
| dṛḍhabuddheḥ (दृढबुद्धेः) | genitive singular | of one whose intellect is firm. Recited dṛḍhabuddher (दृढबुद्धेर्) before d (द्). |
| dṛḍhībhūtam (दृढीभूतम्) | nominative singular, neuter | become firm. |
| tattvalakṣyam (तत्त्वलक्ष्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the target that is reality. |
| pravartate (प्रवर्तते) | present, third person singular | proceeds. |
The phrases
The locative dvādaśānte (द्वादशान्ते) is the place of the mind's dissolution, all around the body. For the firm intellect, the target of reality proceeds, itself become firm.
Sanskrit in this line
dvādaśa (द्वादश) is a numeral compound, two plus ten. anta (अन्त) takes the locative e (ए).
Say it back
Say the verse's word for the place, and what proceeds there.