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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 6.110

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Ullāsas
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Ullāsa 6 · Verse 110

बलिदानविधिःThe rule of offering bali

Verse 110

ततश्चोदीरयेन् मन्त्री तन्नो जीवः प्रचोदयात् । एषा तु पशुगायत्री पशुपाशविमोचनी ॥ ११० ॥

tataścōdīrayēn mantrī tannō jīvaḥ pracōdayāt | ēṣā tu paśugāyatrī paśupāśavimōcanī || 110 ||

Translation

then the mantrī should say "tan no jīvaḥ pracodayāt". This is the paśu-gāyatrī, which frees from the noose of the bound.

Word by word

tataś
(tataḥ) then
cōdīrayēn
(ca udīrayet) and should say
mantrī
the practitioner
tan
(tat) that
nō
(naḥ) us
jīvaḥ
the living one
pracōdayāt
may impel
ēṣā
this
tu
indeed
paśu
paśu
gāyatrī
Gāyatrī
pāśa
noose
vimōcanī
freeing from

Meaning

The whole Gāyatrī: paśupāśāya vidmahe viśvakarmaṇe dhīmahi tan no jīvaḥ pracodayāt, "we know the noose of the bound, we meditate on the maker of all; may the living one impel us". (The commentary reads viśvakarmaṇe, the dative the pattern needs; the verse has viśvakarmaṇi.)

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

See the commentary on verse 109.