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. |
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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} |
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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 |
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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 |
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eyen |
deer’s |
tawny |
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hair |
short |
fine |
coarse |
wound |
wound, sorrel |
neck |
long |
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breasts |
expansive |
aequal, greenish-blue |
expansive |
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belly |
deer’s |
having 3 folds |
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vagina |
long |
small |
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limbs |
small |
(gooselike gait) |
rough |
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hands & feet |
long |
red |
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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 |
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S`ri-Heruka & Varahi |
palm of hand |
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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 |
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human |
human |
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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 |
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heron |
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jackal |
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[dvi-ja] ‘twice-born’ |
fn. 6 – parrot (born-again when uttering human speech) |
"prime minister" |
fn. 7 -- owl |
curlew |
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swan |
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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" |
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315 |
fluttering of peacock-feathers [fanning or sweeping?] |
summoning with hook (ankus`a – fn. 11) |
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agitating with mace (musala – fn. 12) |
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devouring ["with the method of cruelty" (fn. 13)] |
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piercing with arrow |
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applying khat.vanga to victim |
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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.