Cakra-samvara Tantra-m [‘wheel-magic loom’]

(S`ri-Heruka Abhidhana) chapters 25-38

p. 264 (cap. XXV) procedure of completely hiding the mala-mantra

kara

kuru

bandha

trasaya

ks.obhaya

make

do

bind

terrify

incite

hraum

hras

phrem

phat.

 

daha

paca

bhak.sa

burn

cook

enjoy

akad.d.ha

hrim

jn~aum

ks.mam

ham

him

hum

kili

sili

cili

dhili

 

pp. 265-266 (cap. XXVI) duti-s (‘female messengers’)

p.

messengers

265

"These messengers bestow all powers, always

looking, touching, kissing, and embracing."

266

"One’s mother, sister, daughter, or even one’s wife can serve as messengers."

pp. 267-268 (cap. XXVI) the 8 samaya-s (‘commitments’)

p.

#

sam-aya

{significance}

267

2nd

"Do not be stupified by lust through union with another goddess."

{adultery of a married man with other women is commendable; only his marriage with a goddess ought be kept free of adultery with another goddess}

268

6th

"have an excellent churning stick in practice with a woman,

{sexual intercourse (fn. 21), contemplatively aequated with the mythic churning of the milk-sea by deva-s & asura-s}

 

7th

yet observe chastity in meditation.

{brahma-carya ("chastity") should be merely contemplative (restricted to a creed about brahman), rather than actual/practiced}

 

8th

One is not [to be] hostile in the transfer of fluid."

{Do not hinder orgasm during sexual intercourse, nor be resentful toward one’s sexual partner on account of the resultant orgasm.}

pp. 269-270 (cap. XXVI) moving the little finger

p.

little finger

{significance}

269

"The wise one should move his little finger; the messengers are positioned."

{Endumion, who moved only his own little finger, became king (GM 64.a) of Elis.}

270, fn. 29

[according to Bhavabhat.t.a] "The channel called "bird’s face" (khagamukha) {actually, ‘flying deities’ mouth’}, which is like a bandhuka flower, should be ... simulated, by the concave space ... as if around a seed, inserted within the flower."

{Daktulos (‘finger-god’) of little-finger is Iasos (CDCM, s.v. "Dactyls"), who became king (CDCM, s.v. "Iasus 1") of Elis.

Endumion was son (GM 64.a) of nymph Kaluke (‘calyx of flower’).}

p. 279 (cap. XXVII) literature recommended

name used in this text

alternative name for same book

   

Tattva-samgraha

 

Samvara

fn. 49 [according to S`uranga-vajra] Sarva-buddha-Sama-yoga-D.akini-jala-samvara Uttara-tantra

Guhya Tantra

fn. 50 [according to Bhavabhat.t.a] Guhya-kos`a (in the rGyud->bum of the rN~in-ma)

S`ri-Parama-adya

fn. 51 Hari Tantra

Maha-bhairava

 

p. 285 (cap. XXVIII) female messengers for procedures of the inner fire-sacrifice

duti : one’s __

[according to Durjayacandra] relations of one’s guru

mother

guru’s consort

sister

female co-disciple

daughter

she to whom one gives oral instructions

wife

female given by guru

p. 287 (cap. XXVIII) meats offered in "triangular man.d.ala"

beef

horse-meat

hound-meat

(fn. 25) [according to Jayabhadra] peafowl

(fn. 25) [according to Jayabhadra] chicken

p. 287 "even the Buddha will be permanently destroyed."

p. 289, fn. 2 (cap. XXIX) [according to Kambala] bodily qualities of 5 types of female messenger as d.akini-s

#

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

face

broad, short

long

 

round

bad

eyen

 

deer’s

 

tawny

 

hair

short

fine

coarse

wound

wound, sorrel

neck

 

long

     

breasts

expansive

aequal, greenish-blue

 

expansive

 

belly

 

deer’s

 

having 3 folds

 

vagina

 

long

small

   

limbs

   

small

(gooselike gait)

rough

hands & feet

 

long

 

red

 

odor

elephantine

piscine

of white-waterlily

of jasmine

of fermented rice

p. 292 (cap. XXX) mantra bound in muraja-drum

p. 292, fn. 1

S`umba-Ni-s`umba mantra

p. 292, fn. 2

grid with 49 squares (7 * 7) in shape of muraja-drum

p. 292, fn. 3

"four-faced drum"

p. 297 (cap. XXXI) bodily relics of the saints

"the skull of the relics of the reality body ... arising ... from the tripartite cause of conch, mother –of-pearl, and pearl"

fn. 5 – "Atharva Veda 4.10 ... connects pearl and mother of pearl with the bones of the slain asura Vr.tra."

p. 298 (cap. XXXI) abiding-places of deities

deity

that deity’s abode

[according to Bhavabhat.t.a (only for the little-finger is any deity mentioned in the CST itself)] that abode as part of hand

Vajra-sattva

taru (‘tree’)

fn. 6 – angus.t.ha (‘thumb’)

Vai-rocana

lata (‘creeper’)

fn. 7 – tarjjan (‘index finger’)

Padma-nartaka

guru

fn. 8 – madhya-angula (‘middle finger’)

vira (‘hero’)

"current"

fn. 9 – ring finger

Akas`a-garbha

fn. 10 – [acc. to Bhavabhat.t.a] vajra-surya

little finger

Haya-griva

 

fingernails

S`ri-Heruka & Varahi

 

palm of hand

all d.akini-s

 

back of hand

p. 299 (cap. XXXI) goddesses "transcendent in" the elements

element

its goddess

earth

Locana

water

Mamaki

fire

Pan.d.ara

wind

Tara

s`unyata (‘the void’)

Cumbika

p. 300 (cap. XXXII) fn. 2 -- sacrificial animal-victims for the melaka of feasting [according to variant texts of the CST]

Mardo

Sumatikirti

Durjayacandra

donkey

 

donkey

 

human

human

tortoise

tortoise

tortoise

camel

camel

camel

jackal

jackal

jackal

horse

horse

horse

   

fox

p. 301 (cap. XXXII) sacrificial animal-victims for the man.d.ala

victim

as interpretated by Sachen

crow

 

heron

 

jackal

 

[dvi-ja] ‘twice-born’

fn. 6 – parrot (born-again when uttering human speech)

"prime minister"

fn. 7 -- owl

curlew

 

swan

 

kadamba goose

 

pp. 302-303 (cap. XXXII) necromantic conjurations

p.

necromancy

comparative

301

Having been fed "black dog’s [bitch’s] milk with black lentils",

bitch-goddess Hekabe at Zerunthos in Samothraike (A 1174sq. -- HC) : ZERnnTH = YEReD (Jaredite "milk and honey" in 9 Moroni 2:19)

302

"the dead person stands up and says, "I am your servant.""

[/zopurid-/ ‘reviving’] Zopurion was acting as though son of bitch Hekabe (according to Erasistratos of Keos – GERE, p. 63)

303

"One should produce that which is emaciated in the cattle pen, ...

[Mayombe (Kongo)] myth : ox "was caught in" trap by Nkufu ‘Turtle’ (BBMM, cap. 15).

 

a dried head, ... and that which is unbroken of the turtle."

ritual : human victim’s "skull split open and his brain removed. ... a turtle shell" (OSK, cf. ES-C).

A = Lukophron : Aleksandra.

9 Moroni http://www.absalom.com/mormon/mohonri/moroni9.html

GERE = Gideon Nisbet : Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire. Oxford U Pr, 2003.

HC = http://www.theoi.com/Cult/HekateCult.html

BBMM = R. E. Dennett : At the Back of the Black Man's Mind. 1906. http://ftp.fortunaty.net/com/sacred-texts/afr/mind/mind15.htm

OSK = http://comelooksee.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/occult-serial-killings-in-a-texas-border-community/

ESC = http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?s=b086afe8c6da40f02571594f0ce547d4&showtopic=44605

pp. 305-306 (cap. XXXIII) secret worship of female by male

p.

secret

305, fn. 3

"The disciple should place his head between the left one’s thighs. ... the left one is the messenger [duti ‘female messenger’], and placing one’s head between her thighs" is for applying of man’s lips to woman’s vulva

306, fn. 6

"Comparing oneself to a bee and a woman ... to a lotus" {inasmuch as the bee is sucking from the pistil and the waterlily-blossom is a conventional figure-of-speech for a woman’s vulva, sucking by the man on the woman’s vulva is implied}

pp. 308-309 (cap. XXXIV) d.akinya-jala-cakra (‘witchy net-wheel’)

p.

net-wheel

{comparative}

308, fn. 1

[according to Jayabhadra] "it binds the [kles`a-MAKARA-adi] sea monster of the afflictions"

{" Kamadeva's emblem is Makara and hence his wife [Rati] carries it whenever she goes." (AIM): "Kama also was swallowed by a fish" (FM, p. 343) : "it was so hot in the whale’s stomach" (MM, p. 144) as to resemble the hot springs at Thermopulai, where MAKARia is nymph of a water-spring (GM 146.b)}

309, fn. 5

ava-dhuti ‘shaking-off’

{cf. the shaking-off of (AI 6:13) unripe fruit (/PaG/ – Strong’s 6291) for /nePeG/ son (S^emo^t 6:21) of YiS.HAR <

309, fn. 4

"one should pierce"

S.oHAR (Strong’s 6672) ‘window’ (pierced in a wall)}

{the name of Nepeg’s brother Qorah ‘cold’ may allude to the chillness of lofty mountain-passes : /FaJJ/ ‘road between 2 mountains’ (LA-L 3:316b)}

AIM = Krishnanand Kamat : "Animals of Indian Mythology". In : -- JOURNAL OF THE MYTHIC SOCIETY, Vol. LXXXV Issue 2, June 1994.

FM = James George Roche Forlong : The Faiths of Man. 1906.

MM = Ev Cochrane : Martian Metamorphoses. 1996.

AI = Apokalupsis of Ioannes

Strong’s = Dictionary of Bible Words.

LA-L = Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. 1975.

p. 312, fn. 4 (cap. XXXV) [according to Viravajra] colors of purposes of mantra-s

purpose

its color

its caste

pacifying

white

ks.atriya

enriching

yellow

vais`ya

controlling

red

brahmin

destroying

black

s`udra

p. 313 (cap. XXXV) method of cheating "black death"

fn. 5 -- [according to Jayabhadra] the penis of the man is to discharge into the vagina of the goddess; thence into the mouth of the goddess; but for fierce rites, the mouth of the man is to be applied to the mouth of the goddess. (silent transmittal of mantric prayer)

pp. 314-316 (cap. XXXV) methods for tormenting victim Deva-datta

p.

method [done as sacrifice to goddess Khan.d.a-roha, according to Jayabhadra]

314

enveloping (samput.a – fn. 7)

 

binding with "adamantine chain"

315

fluttering of peacock-feathers [fanning or sweeping?]

 

summoning with hook (ankus`a – fn. 11)

 

agitating with mace (musala – fn. 12)

 

devouring ["with the method of cruelty" (fn. 13)]

 

piercing with arrow

 

applying khat.vanga to victim

316

skull-bowl

"black death" is "untimely death" according to Viravajra (fn. 8)

p. 317 (cap. XXXVI) summoning the reality

reality

comment

fn. 1 – [according to Viravajra] "into the fire pit of the lady’s vulva"

{cf. [Ainu etc.] fire-goddess, cooking food with heat of her vagina}

fn. 2 -- the 2 signs : [according to Viravajra] "the two syllables dhi and vya"

fn. 2 – "in the extant text of the Yoginisamcara, ch. 8 v. 4, as dya and vya"

"For immobilizing a consort there is the ritual act of eating.

{could this suggest woman’s being immobilized by reclining while food is inserted into and eaten out of her vagina?}

Thus one should be furnished with a weapon."

{weapons, such as swords, are often brandished in Daoist & Siberian shamanic rituals of exorcism.}

pp. 320-321 (cap. XXXVII) eating-habits

p.

eating

{comment}

320

"That which has been eaten is vomited up; the food should be vomited at the conclusion".

{"according to Seneca, the Romans vomited so they could eat and they ate so they could vomit." (RVC)}

321

ritual for causing always to eat black sesame seeds along with black mustard seeds : kus.t.ha root ["aromatic root of Costus speciosus" (fn. 5)] ... from the anus ["inserted and removed from the anus seven times." (fn. 6), a finger nail, and an intestinal worm."]

{is kus.t.ha-root a vermifuge?}

RVC = http://fascinatinghistory.blogspot.com/2005/05/roman-vomit-collectors.html

p. 324 (cap. XXXVIII) types of holy places

"the d.akinis abide with impassioned eyes everywhere, at rivers, ponds, and the ocean, on mountains, and at crossroads, waterholes, wells, empty houses, and alleys."

"in the charnel ground of great terror, likewise ranging in space and in the underworld, in the company of many dreadful zombies and great mighty ones (mahabala ...).

In a hollow [kuhara], a cave [gahvara "inaccessible place" (fn. 13)], or in a secret [guhya] – in these places the men of mystery [gud.ha-manusya (fn. 15)] {"men of mystery" is a designation of hsien} ... sport with the adept upon the earth."

David B. Gray (tr.) : The Cakrasamvara Tantra (S`riherukabhidhana). American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia U, NY, 2007. pp. 263-324.