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Essay name: Svacchandatantra (history and structure)

Author: William James Arraj

The essay represents a study and partial English translation of the Svacchandatantra and its commentary, “Uddyota�, by Kshemaraja. The text, attributed to the deity Svacchanda-bhairava, has various names and demonstrates a complex history of transmission through diverse manuscript traditions in North India, Nepal, and beyond.

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Hear from me the objects (karmÄṇi) of the organ of the eye
being discussed: white, red, yellow, black, green, gray,/25/
[12] light brown, brown, dark brown, [and] also others, by
specification;
[Others, i.e.,] color-forms (rÅ«pÄṇi).
Similarly,
man, woman, domestic animal, wild animal; light,
immobile, mobile;/26/
Thus, in this fashion,
[those] differentiated by color and shape, the eye sees
everywhere.
Color, i.e., white, etc.; shape (Äká¹›tiá¸�), i.e., collocation; [those]
distinguised by these two, i.e., characterized by these two, i.e.,
objects, the eye sees. [And in that construction] the agency of
that [eye] is used metonymically.
Thus, likewise,
The object-range of that by which the self (ÄtmÄ) cognizes is
called color-form. /27/
Sweet, sour, salty, acrid, pungent, astringent, mixed, and
pleasant; [such] taste the tongue knows.
[13] In this fashion,
This taste is object-range of that by which the person
cognizes. A fragrant celestial odor, and a foul odor, in
various ways,/29/
the nose smells both in front.
The nose, i.e., the agent, smells both located in front.
And therefore, of that, this
Is the object-range called odor, by which that subject knows,
deluded by ego./30/
In the body, etc., on account of the supposition of being bound, it
knows objects as different [from itself]. And this should be
construed with the preceding.
In volition, and in conception, and in the tenfold senses, it
flows, the unrepulsed doubt, unconquerable, for all the

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