अं कं चं टं तं पं यं शं वीं दुं ऐं वीं हं क्षं धिजाग्रं धिजाग्रं त्रोटय त्रोटय दीप्तं कुरु कुरु स्वाहा॥ पां पीं पूं पार्वती पूर्णा खां खीं खूं खेचरी तथा ॥ ८ ॥
aṁ kaṁ caṁ ṭaṁ taṁ paṁ yaṁ śaṁ vīṁ duṁ aiṁ vīṁ haṁ kṣaṁ dhijāgraṁ dhijāgraṁ trōṭaya trōṭaya dīptaṁ kuru kuru svāhā || pāṁ pīṁ pūṁ pārvatī pūrṇā khāṁ khīṁ khūṁ khēcarī tathā || 8 ||
Translation
Aṁ kaṁ caṁ ṭaṁ taṁ paṁ yaṁ śaṁ vīṁ duṁ aiṁ vīṁ haṁ kṣaṁ dhijāgraṁ dhijāgraṁ: break them open, break them open; make them shine, make them shine, svāhā. Pāṁ pīṁ pūṁ: Pārvatī, the full one; khāṁ khīṁ khūṁ: and Khecarī.
Word by word
- aṁ kaṁ caṁ ṭaṁ taṁ paṁ yaṁ śaṁ
- the first letters of the groups of the alphabet
- vīṁ duṁ aiṁ vīṁ haṁ kṣaṁ
- seed syllables, whose meaning, the book says, need not be known: their repetition is enough
- dhijāgraṁ dhijāgraṁ
- seed syllables, whose meaning, the book says, need not be known: their repetition is enough
- trōṭaya trōṭaya
- break open, break open
- dīptam
- shining
- kuru kuru
- make, make
- svāhā
- svāhā (the word of offering)
- pām pīm pūm
- seed syllables, whose meaning, the book says, need not be known: their repetition is enough
- pārvatī
- Pārvatī
- pūrṇā
- the full one
- khām khīm khūm
- seed syllables, whose meaning, the book says, need not be known: their repetition is enough
- khēcarī
- Khecarī, she who moves in the sky
- tathā
- and
Meaning
The first syllables open the groups of the alphabet, a, ka, ca, ṭa, ta, pa, ya, śa: the whole of sound, from which all mantras are made. The book’s Hindi asks her to break all these open and make them shine. Khecarī, “she who moves in the sky”, is also, the book notes, the name of a mudrā.