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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 14.69

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Ullāsas
14
Verses
2517
Minutes
1258
Level
advanced

Ullāsa 14 · Verse 69

प्रार्थनम्The prayer

Verse 69

अनेन सुदृढीकृत्य लिङ्गं स्पृष्ट्वा पठेदिमम् ॥ ६९ ॥

anēna sudṛḍhīkṛtya liṅgaṁ spṛṣṭvā paṭhēdimam || 69 ||

Translation

Having made it firm with this, he should touch the liṅga and recite the following:

Word by word

anēna
with this
sudṛḍhīkṛtya
having made firm
liṅgaṁ
the liṅga
spṛṣṭvā
touching
paṭhēd
(paṭhet) he should recite
imam
this

Meaning

The commentary supplies the object: it is the vedī that has been made firm. A half-verse that introduces the invocation of the next four verses.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Sudṛḍhīkṛtya: "the vedī" is to be supplied, having made the vedī firm.