महानिर्वाणतन्त्रस्य श्रेष्ठत्वम्The excellence of the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra
Verse 211
महानिर्वाणतन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं किं ब्रवीमि ते । विदित्वैतन्महातन्त्रं ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमाप्नुयात् ॥ २११ ॥
mahānirvāṇatantrasya māhātmyaṁ kiṁ bravīmi tē | viditvaitanmahātantraṁ brahmanirvāṇamāpnuyāt || 211 ||
Translation
What can I tell you of the greatness of the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra? Knowing this great Tantra one attains the nirvāṇa of Brahman.
Word by word
- mahānirvāṇa
- of the Mahānirvāṇa
- tantrasya
- Tantra
- māhātmyaṁ
- the greatness
- kiṁ
- what
- bravīmi
- can I tell
- tē
- you
- viditvā
- knowing
- ētan
- (etat) this
- mahā
- great
- tantraṁ
- Tantra
- brahma
- of Brahman
- nirvāṇam
- the nirvāṇa
- āpnuyāt
- (āpnuyāt) one attains
Meaning
The first half ends where it began: the question "what can I tell you?" opened Śiva's praise of the liṅga at verse 5, and now it closes the praise of the text. Its last word gives the Tantra its name, nirvāṇa in Brahman, the highest freedom for which the whole work has been taught.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 202.