महानिर्वाणतन्त्रस्य श्रेष्ठत्वम्The excellence of the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra
Verse 210
सन्ति तन्त्राणि बहुधा शास्त्राणि विविधान्यपि । महानिर्वाणतन्त्रस्य कलां नार्हन्ति षोड़शीम् ॥ २१० ॥
santi tantrāṇi bahudhā śāstrāṇi vividhānyapi | mahānirvāṇatantrasya kalāṁ nārhanti ṣōḍaśīm || 210 ||
Translation
There are many Tantras and scriptures of various kinds; they are not worth a sixteenth part of the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra.
Word by word
- santi
- there are
- tantrāṇi
- Tantras
- bahudhā
- many
- śāstrāṇi
- scriptures
- vividhāni
- of various kinds
- api
- also
- mahānirvāṇa
- of the Mahānirvāṇa
- tantrasya
- Tantra
- kalāṁ
- part
- na
- not
- arhanti
- (arhanti) worth
- ṣōḍaśīm
- a sixteenth
Meaning
"Kalā ṣoḍaśī", the sixteenth digit of the moon, is the common idiom for the smallest share, often used in praise of a text.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 202.