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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 6.87

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Ullāsas
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Minutes
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Ullāsa 6 · Verse 87

षोड़शोपचाराः, उपचारप्रदानमन्त्राःThe sixteen offerings and their mantras

Verse 87

ततः पात्रञ्च शुद्धिञ्च समादाय करद्वये । मूलं समुच्चरन् मन्त्री यन्त्रमध्ये निवेदयेत् ॥ ८७ ॥

tataḥ pātrañca śuddhiñca samādāya karadvayē | mūlaṁ samuccaran mantrī yantramadhyē nivēdayēt || 87 ||

Translation

Then taking the vessel and the śuddhi in both hands, saying the root mantra, the mantrī should offer them in the middle of the yantra.

Word by word

tataḥ
then
pātra
vessel
ñca
(ca) and
śuddhi
śuddhi
samādāya
taking
kara
hand
dvayē
in both
mūlaṁ
the root mantra
samuccaran
saying
mantrī
the practitioner
yantra
yantra
madhyē
in the middle
nivēdayēt
should offer

Meaning

With the root mantra and "idaṁ madyam imāṁ śuddhiṁ cādyāyai kālyai nivedayāmi" ("this wine and this śuddhi I offer to Ādyā Kālī"). What the Tantra prescribes here is its own teaching, given as the text presents it; taking up any practice is a matter for one's tradition and teacher.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Then, after that, taking in both hands the drinking vessel and the śuddhi, meat and the rest, and uttering the root mantra and at its end "idaṁ madyam imāṁ śuddhiṁ cādyāyai kālyai nivedayāmi" ("this wine and this śuddhi I offer to Ādyā Kālī"), the mantrī should offer them to the Goddess in the middle of the yantra.