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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 6.187

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Ullāsas
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Minutes
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Ullāsa 6 · Verse 187

पानपात्रनिर्माणविधिःHow the drinking vessel is made

Verse 187

पानपात्रं प्रकुर्वीत न पञ्चतोलकाधिकम् । तोलकत्रितयान्न्यूनं स्वार्णं राजतमेव च ॥ १८७ ॥

pānapātraṁ prakurvīta na pañcatōlakādhikam | tōlakatritayānnyūnaṁ svārṇaṁ rājatamēva ca || 187 ||

Translation

He should make the drinking vessel no more than five tolakas and no less than three tolakas, of gold or of silver,

Word by word

pāna
drinking
pātraṁ
vessel
prakurvīta
should make
na
not
pañca
five
tōlaka
tolakas
adhikam
more than
tritayān
(tritayāt) than three
nyūnaṁ
less
svārṇaṁ
of gold
rājatam
of silver
ēva
or
ca
and

Meaning

A tolaka is a small weight; the cup is deliberately small.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

He should not make a drinking vessel of more than five tolakas or less than three tolakas. That drinking vessel, made of gold, of silver, or of glass or of coconut shell, the wise and steady practitioner should set on a stand to the right of the vessel of śuddhi, and bringing the mahāprasāda he should serve it into the vessels, himself or by his brothers' sons, in order of seniority. Seniority here is not to be taken from birth but from consecration (abhiṣeka): so it is to be understood. (This explanation covers verses 187 to 189.)