प्राणप्रतिष्ठा, पूजाThe giving of life and the worship
Verse 75
पाशाङ्कुशपुटा शक्तिर्यादिसान्ताः सबिन्दुकाः । हौँ हंस इति मन्त्रेण तत्र प्राणान् निवेशयेत् । चन्दनागुरुकाश्मीरैर्विलिप्य गिरिजापतिम् ॥ ७५ ॥
pāśāṅkuśapuṭā śaktiryādisāntāḥ sabindukāḥ | haum̐ haṁsa iti mantrēṇa tatra prāṇān nivēśayēt | candanāgurukāśmīrairvilipya girijāpatim || 75 ||
Translation
The śakti, enclosed by the noose and the goad, the letters from ya to sa with the dot, and "hauṁ haṁsa": with this mantra he should install the life-breaths there. Smearing the Lord of Girijā with sandal, aloe and saffron,
Word by word
- pāśa
- the noose
- aṅkuśa
- (aṅkuśa) and the goad
- puṭā
- enclosed by
- śaktir
- (śaktiḥ) the śakti
- ya
- ya
- ādi
- (ādi) from
- sāntāḥ
- (sa-antāḥ) to sa
- sabindukāḥ
- with the dot
- haum̐
- hauṁ
- haṁsa
- haṁsa
- iti
- thus
- mantrēṇa
- with the mantra
- tatra
- there
- prāṇān
- the life-breaths
- nivēśayēt
- he should install
- candana
- with sandal
- aguru
- (aguru) aloe
- kāśmīrair
- (kāśmīraiḥ) and saffron
- vilipya
- smearing
- girijā
- of Girijā
- patim
- the Lord
Meaning
This is the giving of life (prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā), and the commentary assembles the mantra. The noose is āṁ and the goad kroṁ, and they enclose the śakti seed hrīṁ; then come the eight letters with the nasal, and hauṁ haṁsaḥ: "āṁ hrīṁ kroṁ yaṁ raṁ laṁ vaṁ śaṁ ṣaṁ saṁ hauṁ haṁsaḥ". The Goddess's life-breaths were installed in a like way at 6.70-75; here the mantra carries Śiva's own seed hauṁ.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Pāśa" and the rest. Pāśāṅkuśapuṭā: the śakti, the seed hrīṁ, which is joined at beginning and end to the noose and the goad, the seeds āṁ and kroṁ, is to be uttered first. Then the letters from ya to sa, with the dot (sabindukāḥ), that is, with the anusvāra, are to be uttered. Then "hauṁ haṁsaḥ" is to be uttered. Putting them together, the mantra that arises is "āṁ hrīṁ kroṁ yaṁ raṁ laṁ vaṁ śaṁ ṣaṁ saṁ hauṁ haṁsaḥ". With this mantra, by the rite told before, he should install the life-breaths there in the liṅga (verses 75 and 76).