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International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Kōyasan

 September, 

Śɪ Sʀ  ʜ Bɪ Yɢɪɴɴʀ: ʜ C  ʜ Rɪʟ 


Iɴɪɪɪɴ Tɢʜ ɪɴ ʜ Lɢʜʀɴʀ
.

Alexis Sanderson

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A = Jayadrathayāmala, Sa . tka
. , Yoginīsamcāraprakara
. na.
. Manuscripts, with folio
numbers of the Yoginīsamcāraprakara
. na
. section and of its eighth Patala:
. A = NAK -
-, NGMPP B/; palm-leaf; `Pāla-Sena' Devanāgarı̄ (media); no date; probably
th century; ff. v--v; ff. v–; B =Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. Or.
; paper; Newari script (media); Samvat  (.. ); ff. r--v; ff.
r–; C = Kathmandu, Kaiser Library Ms. No. , NGMPP C/; paper;
Newari script (currens); Samvat  (.. ); ff. r--r; ff. v–; D
= NAK --, NGMPP A /; paper; Newari script (media); Samvat 
(.. ); ff. r--r; ff. r–; E = NAK --, NGMPP B/; paper;
Newari script (formata); no date; ff. r--r; ff. v–.

B = Herukābhidhānatantra (/Laghvabhidhāna, Laghuśamvara),


. Oriental Institute, M.S.
University, Baroda, Acc. No. : ‘Herukavidhānatamtra’;
. palm-leaf; Māgadha
script; no date.

A B
devy uvāca:
. devadeva viśis. t.ānām
.
yāgānām . kathito vidhih.
adhunā śrotum icchāmi
sāmānyam . tu mahādhvaram
. tasya darśanamātrena .
śaktayo bhīmavikramāh.
bhavante devadeveśa
paśavām . paśutāpahāh.

bhairava uvāca:


. girigahvaraguhyes. u . girigahvarakuñjes. u
mahodadhitat.es. u ca mahodadhitat.es. u vā
ādisiddhe śmaśāne vā ādisiddhaśmaśāne ca
ālikhen man. dala
. m . śubham tatra man. dalam
. ālikhet

iti herukābhidhāne
man. dalāvatārapa
. tala
. h. prathamah.

. śmaśānabhasmanā miśram


. . tatra pānagomayena
kapilāgomayam. śubham man. dalabhūmi
. pralepayet
raktodakavimisrena
. śmaśānabhasmanā yuktam .
tena bhūmim. pralepayet pañcāmr. tasamanvitam .
. upalipya tato bhūmim .
tatra man. dalam
. ārabhet
śmaśānan tu samācaret
. śmaśānabhasma samg . r. hya . cityāṅgāracūrnena.
śmaśāne 's. t.adalam
. śubham śmaśānes. t.akasamyuktam
.
śmaśānāṅgāracūrna . m. tu ālikhen man. dala
. m . divyam.
ācāryah. sa sulaks. ana h
. .
trirekham . man. dala
. m . likhet
. ekahastam . dvihasta m. vā
caturas. t.akaram . tathā
sūtrayed rudhirāktena Cf. B .cd.
śavasūtrena . sūtradhr. k
. samyagjñānatantrajñah.
śrīherukamantrajñah.
. akrodhano śucir daks. o akrodhaś ca śucir daks. o
ācāryo jñānapāragah. yogajño jñānapāragah.
kapālamālābharano . . kapālakr. tamūrdhajah.
raudrabhasmāvagun. t.hitah. bhasmānuliptāṅgah.
. pañcamudrāvratadharo
bhairavāṅgair vibhūs. itah. sambhavān
. mātrair vibhūs. itagātrah.
. asthimālāsamsthitaś
. ca
ekakhan. dīkr
. . tamūrdhaja h.
asthimālāvalambī
khat.vāṅgakarasamsthita
. h.
. ātmānam . śrīherukam . kr. tvā
śrīherukatvam . tata h
. smaret
cakram asya hr. di nyaset


. evam . samnahya-m-ātmāna
. m
. (v)
prākāram . tu diśo nyaset
evam . samnahya-m-ātmānam
.
adho hy astram . viniveśayet
. cakrasya svayam ātmānam
ūrdhvan tu śarajālakam
ātmanah. khecaram . pañjaram .
kr. tvātmānam . susamāhita h.
. evam . samnahya
. sakavaco
'bhedyas tridaśair api
evam . suraks. ya-m-ātmānam .
mahābhūtāstrajālena
samantāt parives. t.itam
mudrāmantrair alamk . r. tam
. ālikhen man. dalavara
. m. . ālikhen man. dala . m . ghoram .
ghorasiddhipradāyakam mahāsiddhipradāyakam
tato mr. takasūtrena .
mahārudhirarañjitena ca
. sūtrayen man. dala . m . ghoram .
herukasya param . puram
ekahastam . catur as. t.am . ca
caturaśram
. caturdvāram
. caturasram . tu samantatah.
. caturdvārasamākīrna . m .
catustoranabhū
. s. itam
vicared dviguna . m . mantrī
japed dākinījālasa
. mvaram
.
madhye padmavibhūs. itam . tasya madhye pratis. t.hāpya
. as. t.apatram . tu tat padmam . sapatram . karnikojjvalam
.
karnikādhi
. s. t.hitam
. śubham pus. karaiś ca keśarānvitam .
tasya madhye nyased devi . karnikāyā
. m . nyased vīram
.
bhairavam . bhīmavikramam mahābhairavabhīs. anam .
. daks. inābhimukha
. m. dīptam.
bhīmarūpam . bhayāvaham
tejaskam . tu sudīptāṅgam
at.t.āt.t.ahāsamahāravam
. kapālamālābharana . m.
divyam . trinetram. caturmukham
hasticarmāvaruddham . ca
vajrasambhinnasabhruvam


. khat.vāṅgakr. tahastam. tu
śatamālārdhabhūs. itam
tasyāgratah. sthitā devī tasyāgratah. sthitām . devīm.
aghorā ghoravikramā vajravārāhīm . sughorām
. bhairavābhimukhām . kruddhām
. . śrīherukābhimukhām . kr. tvā tu
raudrarūpām . nyaset tatah. trimukhīm . raudrarūpi nīm
.
kapālāntrasampūrnā . m.
sravantīm. rudhiram . mukhāt
. tarjayantīm . diśān sarvān
sadevāsuramānus. ān

paścime karnamo . t.īm


. tu dākinyaś
. ca caturvimśā .
uttarena . umā m. śubhām vārāhyākulasambhavāh. (r)
. nandim . ganapati
. m. caiva . cakragarbhe tu pūjayed
pūrvāyodyatapat.t.isam diśāsu vidiśāsu ca
āgneyyām . ghoravacanām . vīrāmś . caiva tathaiveha
nairr. tyām . krodhamūrtijām cakre samsthāpya
. pūjayet
. vāyavyām . krodharaudrākhyām . vīram advayam .
aiśānyām . yogasa mbhavām
. yad icchet siddhim . sādhakah.
caturvimśati . yoginyo kalaśāmś . ca tatah. kuryān
keśarāgre tu vinyaset mūlakālādivarjitān
. pretarāks. asabhūtāmś . ca . mauktikair hemaratnaiś ca
dvitīyāvarana . . m bhavet pravādarajatais
. tāmraih.
tr. tīye 'ṅgāni vinyasya sarvabhaks. yais tu sampūrnāṅ .
nyased devyaś caturthake kapāloparisamsthitai
. h
.
. pañcame sarvadevās tu . sūtrena . ves. t.ayet tatkan. t.ham
.
s. as. t.he śākiniguhyakāh. pallavāgrasamanvitān
saptame tu grahān nyasya as. t.au dvāres. u vinyasya
naks. atrāmś . cās. t.ame tathā vastrayugmaih. suves. t.itān
. navame sāgarān nyasya . navamam . madhyatah. kalaśam .
yathāśaktyā prapūjayet vastrayugmena ves. t.itam
gandhapus. pais tathā dhūpair kr. tvā rajatam . hiranyam
. vā
bhaks. yabhojyaih. susamsk . r. taih. ratnamauktikaśobhitam
. toranai . . h sapatākaiś ca . vikiren man. dale . sarvān
ghan. t.ākiṅkinināditai
. h. ratnasauvarnaśobhanān
.
damarukārāvamukhara
. m.
pat.ahikāśabdasamkulam .
. sampūjya. man. dalavara
. m
. pūjayet puravaram. ramyam.
siddhir eva na samśaya
. h.


. gandhodakena samsicy- .
ātmānam . sarvatomukham
prāg dīpānām . śatam . dadyād
yad icchet siddhim uttamām
. ākāśe dākinya
. h. sarvā
manasā ūrdhvato nyaset
bhūrloke dākinyo
. yāś ca
man. dale
. sarvato nyaset
. pātāle dākinya. yā kācit
pātāle tajjño vinyaset
diśāsu mātarāh. sarvā
vidiśāsu ca niyojayet
. pus. pair gandhais tathā dhūpaih.
dīpānān tu śatam . dadyād
yad icchet siddhi sādhakah.
pūjayed vīrayoginyah.
śrīherukasya man. dale . sthitān
. dhvajai raktais tathā pītaih.
śvetaih. kr. s. napiṅgalai
. h.
sragdāmair vividhaiś caiva
vastrair nānāvidhais tathā
. vitānaiś ca kān. dapa . t.t.a-(v)
kaih. suśobhanais tathā
bhaks. yabhojyakhādyapānai
ca kuryāt susamāhitah.

iti śrīherukābhidhāne
cakrapūjāvidhipatalo
. dvitīyah.

. tata ācāryam


. tos. ayet pūrvam
.
sarvabhāvena sādhakah.
yathāśaktyā pūjayed gurum .
siddhikāmah. susamāhitah.

tatah. śis. yān praveśayet


sopavāsāñ śucīn snātān
arcayed uttarāmukhān
. kapālena śirah. spr. s. t.vā
sampu
. t.ā hr. daye nyaset


khat.vāṅgena tu sarvāṅgān
ālabhet putrakasya tu
. ghan. t.ānādam ālambya
pus. padhūpair alamk . r. tām
. agrato vādaye ghan. t.ām
. ghan. t.ām . vādayet susvarām .
pat.ahīm damaru
. . m. tathā pat.ahikām vāpi sādhakah.
. hāhākārañ ca kārayet
evam vidhivat pūjya
man. dala
. m . sarvakāmikam
vastracchannamukham
. devi . samchādya
. pat.avastrena .
mukham . tes. ān tu putrakām .
pus. pāñjalidharam. tathā pus. papūrnāñjali
. m. prak s
. ipet
. pradaks. inīk
. r. tya puram
. . pradaks. ina . m. ca tatah. kr. tvā
sādhakah. susamāhitah.
praveśayet tat puravaram . ramyam .
daks. ināmūrtim
. āśritah. daks. ināmūrtim
. āśritya
tato dāvāpayet pus. pān . pus. pāñjalin tatah. ks. ipet
devasyopari putrakam man. dalasyopari
.
. yasmims. tat patate pus. pam
. yasmin patati tat pus. pam .
tat tasya kulam ādiśet kulam . tatra vinirdiśet
. śrīherukādipīt.ha darśayet
tatah. pūjayet mudrā-
cārya susamāhitah.
. śis. yānān
. tu dvitīye ahani
hr. nmantraparijaptena raktena trijaptena
tilakān tes. u kārayet tilakam . tasya kārayet
. raktena darśayet tasya mukham udghāt.ya śis. yam .
mukham udghāt.ya man. dalam . darśayen man. dala . m . tatah.
yad yasya devatāsthānam . . yo yasya devatāsthānan
tat sarvam. tasya darśayet tatra tām . darśayet samyak
. samayāñ śrāvayitvā tu
pranipatya
. puram. guroh. pranipatya
. tatah. paścād
ācāryasahitam . puram
. pradaks. ina
. m . ca punah. kr. tvā
pratyārambhena . vāmatah.
man. dale
. gurave ca
pranipatya
. yathāvidhi
suśrāvya pūrvavidhinā
samsiddhaputrakānvitam
.


. gurum . sampūjya
. vidhivad . tatas tu gurave dadyāt
vittaśāt.hyavivarjitah. tathāgatoktadaks. inām .
niryātya suvarnaśatasahasra
. m.
ratnāni vividhāni ca
. vastrayugmaśatam . caiva
gaja vājī rās. t.ram eva ca
karnābhara
. na
. kat.akam . ca
kan. t.hikāṅgulikaiś ca samuttamam
. yajñopavīta sauvarna . m .
svabhāryām . duhitām api
dāsa dāsī bhagnīm . vāpi
pranipatya
. nivedayet
. ātmānam . ca sarvabhāvena
nivedayed buddhimān guroh.
adya prabhr. ti dāso ’ham .
samarpita mayā tava
. evamvidhais
. tatah. kr. tvā
sādhakena suniścitam
tatas tasya tus. yanti
pragr. hya kulajān mantrān
vratāmś. ca samayāms. tathā
. tāvad ārādhayed devi
yoginyo mātaro gurum dākinyo
. yogamātarāh.
dākinyo
. lāmayaś caiva
khan. darohā
. tu rūpinī .
. etair vicarej jagat sarvam.
dākinyai
. h. saha sādhaka h
.
sarvā kiṅkarī tasya
sādhakasya na samśaya . h.
. yogasiddhir bhaved es. ām .
trailokyam anivāritam
antardhāna bilottis. t.ha
khecaratvam . pādalepo 'tha rasāyanam
. jāyate tu sadā nityam
icchayā sādhakasya tu
rūpāny. anekāni kurute
ākāśena tu gacchati
. dākinī
. viśes. atah.
niśumbhayati ca sarvajantūnām


sakr. ddr. s. t.ena yogena
yogitvam . jāyate ks. anāt .
. adr. s. t.aman. dalo . yogī
yogitvam . . yah samīhate
hanyate mus. t.inākāśam . (v)
pibate mr. gatr. s. nikām
.
. es. a yogavarah. śres. t.hah.
sarvayoges. u cottamah.
yah. kāṅks. is. yate kaś cit
sa devāsuramānus. ān
. abhibhūya gamis. yaty
atra man. dale . yo 'bhis. iktah.
sarvatantroktasādhakah.
gopya īks. ana . pāni .m. tu
āliṅgam. dvandvam ādikam
. abhis. ikto bhavet tatra
sarvatantraikam uttaram
tattvasamgrahe
. śamvare
. vāpi
guhye vā vajrabhairave
. ayam . man. dalarājāno
.
na bhūto na bhavis. yati
uktānuktam . ca yat kimcit.
tat sarvam . śrīheruke sthitam

iti śrīherukābhidhāne
daksi. nābhi
. sekavidhipa
. talas
. trtīya
. h.

mātr. dūtyo vratāmś . caiva


yāvadantam . kramena. tu
. ārādhanakramād yāti
tris. as. t.icaruśodhitah.
bhairavībhuvanā devi . tato dākinyo
. bhuvanāni
vijr. mbhayanti mahāvīryā
sarvaśaktibhir āvr. tah.
. etat tu man. dalavara
. m .
mayākhyātam . tavānaghe
dvitīya vratasiddhyartham .
man. dala
. . m kathayāmi te


Aʀ Cʀɪɪ  A
.d paśavām . paśutāpahāh. conj (Aiśa [=paśūnām . paśutāpahāh]) . : paśavo paśahātapāh. ABCDE .c
ādisiddhe śmaśāne B : ādisiddhai śmaśānair ACDE .a akrodhano em : śakrodhano ABCDE .d
bhairavam. em : bhairavī ABCDE .d bhīmavikramā em : bhīmavikramān AC : bhīmavikramām . B:
bhīmavikramāt DE. Cf. Picumata .d: aghorī bhīmavikramā .c ghoravacanām . ] Perhaps this is a
corruption of ghoravadanām .b sambhavām
. em : sambhavān
. ABCD : sambhavāt
. E .a bhūtāmś .
ca ACE : bhūtāmga . B : bhūtāmvya
. D .c tr. tīyeṅgāni C : tr. tīyo mgāni
. ABDE .b sast
. .. he em : s
. . .hi
as t
ABCDE .c grahān em : graho ABCDE .d naks. atrāmś . AD : raks. atrāś BC : vaks. atrāmś . E .c
damarukārāva
. em : damarakārāva
. ABCDE .d pa t
. ahikā E : gha t
. ahikā ABCD .d uttarāmukhān
em : uttarāmukham C : uttarāmmukham . ABDE .c sarvāṅgān em : sarvāṅgā ACD : sarvāṅgo
B .b pat.ahīm . em : pat.aho ABCDE • damaru . m . em : damaras
. ABCDE .d dharam . conj :
varam. ABCDE .d putrakam em : putrakah. ABCDE .a samayāñ em : samayam . ABCDE •
śrāvayitvā B : śrāvayitvās ACDE .d samsiddhaputrakānvitam
. conj : samsiddha
. m
. putrakāmvitam
.
A : samsiddha
. m. putrakā mcitam
. BCDE .a ārādhana conj : aropanā ABCDE • kramād yāti conj :
kramaprāpti ABCDE .b mayā em : māyā ABCDE

Aʀ Cʀɪɪ  B

Viv = Bhavabhat.a, Cakrasamvaratantraviv
. rti.
.
.d ācāryah. sa sulaks. ana. h. conj (= Viv: sa ca sus. t.hu sarvalaks. ana
. h)
. : susalaks. ana
. h. Cod. .a mūrdhajah.
corr (= Viv) : mūrddhajā Cod. .a svayam conj (= Abhidhānottara parallel, .c) : susam Cod.
.b suraks. ya-m-ātmānam . em (= Viv: evam . suraks. ya-m-ātmānam iti. nairukto makārah. pūrvavat) :
suraks. amātmānam . Cod. .d rañjitena ca em (= Viv: mahārudhirāñjitena ceti) : rañjitena vā Cod.
.d at.t.āt.t.ahāsamahāravam . A : at.t.ahāsamahāravam . (metrical) Viv .c tasyāgratah. sthitām . devīm.
em (= Viv and Śaiva parallel): tasyāliṅgatāsthitā devī Cod. .c kapālāntra Cod. : kapālamantra
Viv .a diśān sarvān conj (= variant recorded by Viv) : diśāh. sarvān Viv : diśām . sarvvām . Cod.
.c dākinyaś
. ca caturvimśā. em (= Viv) : dākinyaś
. caturvimśā
. Cod. .d cakre samsthāpya
. Cod. :
cakrasamsthā
. Viv (cakrasa msthā
. iti dvitīyābahuvacanānta m
. padam nakāralopāt) .a tatkan.. m
tha . em
(= Viv: tathā kalaśānām . kan. t.has tatkan. t.hah)
. : tatah. kan. t.ham. Cod. .c vinyasya conj (= parallel in
Abhidhānottara, not glossed in Viv) : viniśya Cod. śobhitam em (=Viv) : śobhitān Cod. .d śobhitam
em (= Viv) : śobhitān Cod. .b sarvān ratnasauvarnaśobhanān . Cod. : sarvvai ratnasauvarnaśobhanāni
.

Manuscripts: C = A photocopies of A photographic prints of a long-format palm-leaf
manuscript completed by one Kāntibodhi in a Māgadha hand on  Kārtika of the st regnal year
of Śūrapāla (II) (.. /). Beijing / Lhasa. The photocopies, which have been my sole means of
access to the manuscript, are read with difficulty. In a few places they are altogether indecipherable. A =
IAWR MBB -; palm-leaf; Newari script (‘Bhujimola’); no date. B = IAWR MBB --;
paper; Newari script; no date. The text of the Cakrasamvaraviv
. rti
. is embedded in other matter and
extends from f. v, beginning in the middle of the fourth sentence, after the maṅgala verse and ending
on f. r.


Viv (unmetrical) .c prāg dīpānām . em (= Viv) : dīpānām . Cod. .c vādayet Cod. (cf. parallel
Jayadrathayāmala, Yoginīsamcāra
. .a, f. v: agrato vādayed ghan. t.ām)
. : nādayet Viv .a pūjya
Viv (pūjyeti sampūjyopasargak
. s. aye) (hypometrical lect. diff.) : sampūjya Cod. .b putrakām . em
(= Viv) (Aiśa gen. pl.) : putrakānām . Cod. (hypermetrical corr.) .a śrīherukādipī t
. ha em (= Viv:
śrīherukādipīt.heti dvitīyālope) : śrīherukādim . pīt.han Cod. .d sahitam . Cod. (= Abhidhānottara
.d) : sahitah. Viv .c man. dale. gurave ca em (= Viv) : ma n dala
.. . m gurave Cod. (= Abhidhānot-
tara, .c) .b tathāgatokta Cod. after corr. (= Abhidhānottara .b) : tathāgatoktām . Viv :
tathāgatoktā Cod. before corr. .a śatam . em : śataś Cod. .d ka nt
.. hikāṅgulikaiś ca samuttamam
em (= Viv: aṅgulikair ity aṅgulīyakaih. . sahārthe tr. tīyā. samuttamam . makut.am) . : kan. t.hikāṅgurikāmś.
ca samuttamām . Cod. .c bhagnī m. corr (= bhaginī m)
. : bhagni m. Cod. .a ātmāna m. ca sarv-
abhāvena (hypermetrical lect. diff.) Viv : ātmānam . sarvvabhāvena Cod. .d samarpita em (= Viv:
samarppiteti nirvibhaktikam) . : samarppitam . Cod. .b suniścitam conj : suniścitah. Cod. .a ayam .
man. dalarājāno
. em (= Abhidhānottara): ma n. dalarājā
. Cod. (hypometrical corr.) .d sthitam em :
sthitah. Cod.

Other parallels between the Laghuśamvara. and Śaiva sources of the Vidyāpīt.ha (Yoginī-
samcāraprakara
. na,
. Tantrasadbhāva, Siddhayogeśvarīmata, and Picumata [= Brahma-
yāmala, not including that set out here and amounting to some  verses, are
tabulated in my `History Through Textual Criticism in the Study of Śaivism, the
Pañcarātra and the Buddhist Yoginītantras' (in Les sources et le temps. Sources and Time.
A Colloquium, Pondicherry, -- January , edited by François Grimal, pp. --
 [Publications du département d'Indologie . Pondicherry: Institut français de
Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient, ]), pp. –.



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