प्रतिमाङ्गे न्यासादिInstalling the image: its baths and nyāsas
Verse 298
सबिन्दुमातृकावर्णपुटितं मूलमुच्चरन् । नमोऽन्तं मातृकास्थाने मन्त्रन्यासं प्रयोजयेत् ॥ २९८ ॥
sabindumātṛkāvarṇapuṭitaṁ mūlamuccaran | namō’ntaṁ mātṛkāsthānē mantranyāsaṁ prayōjayēt || 298 ||
Translation
Uttering the root mantra enclosed by the mātṛkā letters with bindu, and ending in namaḥ, he should perform the nyāsa of the mantra at the places of the mātṛkā.
Word by word
- sa
- with
- bindu
- bindu
- mātṛkā
- mātṛkā
- varṇa
- by the letters
- puṭitaṁ
- enclosed
- mūlam
- the root mantra
- uccaran
- uttering
- namaḥ
- (namaḥ) namaḥ
- antaṁ
- (antam) ending in
- sthānē
- at the places
- mantra
- of the mantra
- nyāsaṁ
- the nyāsa
- prayōjayēt
- he should perform
Meaning
Each letter of the alphabet with anusvāra is set before and after the root mantra, and so placed on the fifty places of the mātṛkā nyāsa, as the commentary explains.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Sabindu" and the rest. Then, uttering the root mantra enclosed by the letters of the mātṛkā with bindu, that is, joined at its beginning and end to the mātṛkā letters with the anusvāra, and ending in "namaḥ", he should perform (vidadhyāt) the nyāsa of the mantra (mantranyāsa) in the places of the mātṛkā.