Shat-cakra-nirupana (the six bodily centres)
by Arthur Avalon | 1919 | 46,735 words | ISBN-10: 8178223783 | ISBN-13: 9788178223780
This is the English translation of the Shat-cakra-nirupana, or “description of the six centres”, representing an ancient book on yoga written in the 16th century by Purnananda from Bengal. This book investigates the six bodily centres famously known as Chakras. The text however actually forms the sixth chapter of the Shri-tattva-cintamani, compiled...
Verse 15
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 15:
तस्यान्तरे प्रविलसद्विशदप्रकाशमम्भोजमण्डलमथो वरुणस्य तस्य ।
अर्धेन्दुरूपलसितं सरदिन्दुशुभ्रं वंकारबिजममलं मकराधिरूढं ॥ १५ ॥tasyāntare pravilasadviśadaprakāśamambhojamaṇḍalamatho varuṇasya tasya |
ardhendurūpalasitaṃ saradinduśubhraṃ vaṃkārabijamamalaṃ makarādhirūḍhaṃ || 15 ||Within it[1] is the white, shining, watery region of Varuṇa, of the shape of a half-moon,[2] and therein, seated on a Makara,[3] is the Bīja Vaṃ, stainless and white as the autumnal moon.
Commentary by Śrī-Kālīcaraṇa:
Here the Author speaks of the presence of the watery region of Varuṇa in the pericarp of the Svādhiṣṭhāna. This watery region (Aṃbhoja-maṇḍalaṃ) is in shape like the half-moon (Ardhendurūpalasitaṃ), and is luminously white (Viśadaprakāśaṃ).
The Śāradā says: “The region of water is lotus (shaped), that of earth is four-cornered[4] and has the thunderbolt (Vajra) and so forth.” Rāghava-bhaṭṭa,[5] in describing it, says: “Draw a half-moon, and draw two Lotuses on its two sides.” The Great Teacher[6] says that “the region of water is like the light of the Lotus-united Half-moon”.
Then he speaks of the Varuṇa-Bīja. This Bīja is also white, and is seated on a Makara, which is the Carrier[7] of Varuṇa. He has the noose in his hand.
Cf, “(Meditate) upon the white Bīja of Varuṇa (within the Lotus). Varuṇa is seated on a Makara, and carries the noose (Pāśa). And above him[8] (that is, in the Bindu) meditate on Hari[9] who is blue of colour (Śyāma) and four-armed.”
The Va in Varuṇa-Bīja belongs to the Ya class—i.e., to the group Ya, Ra, La, Va. This becomes clear from the arrangement of the letters in Kulākula-Cakra and in Bhūtalipi-Mantra.
The rest is clear.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Svādhiṣṭhāna.
[2]:
Water is the element of this Cakra, which is represented by the crescent.
[3]:
An animal of a legendary form, somewhat like an alligator. See Plate III.
[5]:
The famous commentator on the Śāradā-tilaka.
[6]:
Apparently Śaṃkarācārya, Prapañcasāra (Tāntrik Texts, Vol. III), i, 24.
[7]:
Vāhana.
[8]:
Tadūrddhva [Tadūrddhvaṃ]. See Comm, to next verse.
[9]:
Viṣṇu.