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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.13

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 13

वृद्धिश्राद्धप्रयोगःHow the vṛddhi-śrāddha is performed

Verse 13

ततो दर्भमयान् विप्रान् कल्पयेत् प्रणवं स्मरन् । पञ्चभिर्नवभिर्वापि सप्तभिस्त्रिभिरेव वा ॥ १३ ॥

tatō darbhamayān viprān kalpayēt praṇavaṁ smaran | pañcabhirnavabhirvāpi saptabhistribhirēva vā || 13 ||

Translation

Then, remembering the praṇava, he should make vipras of darbha grass, with nine, seven, five or three blades,

Word by word

tataḥ
(tataḥ) then
darbhamayān
made of darbha
viprān
vipras
kalpayēt
he should make
praṇavaṁ
the praṇava
smaran
remembering
pañcabhiḥ
(pañcabhiḥ) with five
navabhiḥ
(navabhiḥ) with nine
vā
or
saptabhiḥ
(saptabhiḥ) with seven
tribhiḥ
(tribhiḥ) with three
ēva
just

Meaning

The brāhmaṇas who receive the offerings are represented by small figures of kuśa grass, as the Brahmā could be in the kuśaṇḍikā (9.34). Each figure is made from an odd number of blades.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

"Tataḥ" and the rest. After that, remembering the praṇava, oṁkāra, the man should make (kalpayet, racayet) vipras of darbha grass. He gives the way of making brāhmaṇas of darbha in a verse and a half, "pañcabhiḥ" and the rest. With nine, seven, five or three blades of kuśa without the inner shoot (nirgarbha), with their tips, the tips pointing up, by winding them to the right two and a half times, he should make the twice-born, the vipras.