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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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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says:
Deluded by the SÄmkhya doctrine, liberation is assumed; /78/
there is not liberation for him; for sometime, separation
from the body.
[The meaning is:] since for sometime, there is that separation
from the body which is not liberation, therefore, deluded by that
knowledge of the SÄmkhyam, liberation [is assumed
(abhimanyate), i.e.,] he only erroneously considers [himself
liberated].
Through such knowledge, that one merely
Remains, freed from matter, devoid of emanation and
reabsorption, /79/
[33] up until that lord, [who is] the supreme lord makes an
emanation.
[In other words,] he only has this liberation from matter, which
is this [state of] being devoid of the emanation and reabsorption of
the effect (karyam) [comprising the elements and sensory media],
[the gross and subtle] body [ (śariram), i.e., the organ
(karaṇam) comprising the inner and outer organs,], etc., [which
all are produced from] matter. And thus, so long as the lord does
not, once more, initiate an emanation for the sake of the
experience of the persons, for so long that one is [in that state
characterized by a] predominance of the dissolution of matter;
[this] is [what] is stated. It is stated that [the lord is] the
supreme lord, i.e., master of the universe up to AnÄÅ›ritaá¸�, with
[this] intention: [to show, namely, that] his mastery is not
merely as emanator of such [as stated here], but also, has [as its]
scope, the entire path of the pure and of the impure.
[When their arises] a readiness to emanate [which] depends on the
lord, [and which is] for the purpose of giving [a field for]
experience in accordance with the maturation of accumulated
action, to [the unconscious] persons [separated from matter], then
the SÄmkhya exercitant,
By that very matter bond, once more is projected in

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