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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heaven and liberation;/59/
[in this way, when one] has acquired the property of
ignorance, one says everything falsely; permanently
suffering, a slave, also dragging a burden and vehicle,/60/
[26] and having a miserable life continuously, in non-
dispassionateness, one is not exhausted;
The meaning is: [in there] being [the property of non-
dispassionateness, one, i.e., one's passions, as a consequence, are
not exhausted].
after having achieved sovereignty from one border to
another, [losing power, the king next] becomes the overlord
of a village;/61/
[then] deprived of [his] village, that lord persists with
[control over] half of that [village]; [nevertheless] he does
not grieve and is not upset, [and] plays as with [the]
previous sovereignty;/62/
this [then is] the property of non-mastery, [which] in this
way, has been presented to you.
Next, located in the body,
I will discuss the unmanifest (avyaktam) having three
qualities, the stimulator of transmigration./63/
[The stimulator,] namely, through the impulse of the lord.
From this very [unmanifest, i.e.,]
From that there is the production of the world, and
therefore it is called matter.
[27] [Since] all this, [the universe] from [the plane of the
intellect to [the plane of] earth, is made [kriyate from kṛti� ],
preemiently [prakarṣeṇa, from pra-,] i.e., is made manifold
[prapañcyate, from pra-], by the lord, in this [matter, it is thus
called] matter (prakṛti�).
Moreover, [this, which is] the cause of perception, [and which is]
located in the body,
The nature of that, I will proclaim, called, the good, the
active, and the dark [constituents]./64/
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