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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complete satisfaction and contentment.
Of he, who is such, this cruelty, etc.,
Next,
Is the characteristic property related to the active
[constituent].
The preponderance of lust and anger, association with
greed, /70/
envy, pride, depression, intoxication, frenzy, sleep and sloth,
non-action, foolishness, ignorance, /71/
disorder, stupidity, heresy, vacillation;
All this [is]
the dark.
I.e., has the form of the properties of the dark [constituent].
And therefore,
[30] That man wherein these signs are visible, should be
known as related to the dark, a person [who is] a seat of
impurity.
Thus, in this way,
This, the three constituents unmanifest, the three
constituents, has been presented./73/
[The meaning is:] this unmanifest, [which] by virtue of being
united with the three constituents, has three constituents [has
been presented].
Having known this completely, one is freed from the
constituents derived from matter.
Having known [matter], i.e., having delimited [it] as an object of
knowledge; from the [constituents (guṇa�)] derived from matter,
i.e., from the properties (dharmai�) [of matter], one is freed,
i.e., accedes to a state of distinctness from matter.
In reality, however, he is not liberated since only this is his
conviction, namely, [that]
I am not the abode of properties, nor [am I] the property of
the intellect and ego;/74/
and deprived of the organs and senses, rid of elements and
