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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.7

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 7

देवीस्तुतिःHymn to the Goddess

Verse 7

त्वमेव पृथ्वी त्वं वारि त्वं वायुस्त्वं हुताशनः । त्वं वियत्त्वमहङ्कारस्त्वं महत्तत्त्वरूपिणी ॥ ७ ॥

tvamēva pṛthvī tvaṁ vāri tvaṁ vāyustvaṁ hutāśanaḥ | tvaṁ viyattvamahaṅkārastvaṁ mahattattvarūpiṇī || 7 ||

Translation

You are earth, you are water, you are wind, you are fire, you are space, you are the I-maker, you whose form is the great principle.

Word by word

tvam
(tvam) you
ēva
alone
pṛthvī
earth
tvaṁ
you
vāri
water
vāyuḥ
(vāyuḥ) wind
hutāśanaḥ
(hutāśanaḥ) fire
viyat
(viyat) space
ahaṅkāraḥ
(ahaṅkāraḥ) the I-maker
mahattattva
the great principle
rūpiṇī
whose form is

Meaning

The tattvas of Sāṅkhya, from the grossest up: the five elements, ahaṅkāra (the sense of "I"), and mahat, cosmic intelligence. The Goddess is each of them.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

"Tvam eva". You alone are pṛthvī, the earth; you are vāri, water; you alone are vāyu, the wind; you are hutāśana, fire; you are viyat, space; you are the ahaṅkāra; and you alone are she whose form is the mahat-tattva.