Navarnavacandipancangastotra 40

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pṛ0 19ba) gaṃdhādimudrāḥpradarśya oṃnamostuguraveta
smāyiṣṭadevasvarūpiṇe yasyavāgamṛtaṃhaṃ
tiviṣaṃsaṃsārasaṃjñakam itinamaskāramu
drayāpraṇamya vāmapārṣṇighātatrayaṃbhūmaudatvātarjanyemadhyamābhyāṃmūrdhordhaṃtālatrayapūrvaṃ ta
rjanyaṃguṣṭaśabdenadaśadigvaṃdhanaṃkṛtvā di
vyadṛṣṭyācasarvavighnānnirasya triśūlākā
rayovyastayoḥkarayoḥsvamūrdhnānaṃparita
stribhrāmaṇenacaturbhikṣuvahniprākāratrayaṃ
cakṛtvā prāṇāyāmatrayaṃkuryāt tatramūlādhāremanāsaṃyojyadakṣāṃguṣṭenadakṣanāsāpuṭaṃdhṛtvā praṇavaṃmūlamaṃtraṃvāṣoḍaśavāraṃ
japanvāmenavāyumāpūrya tatkaniṣṭānā
sābhyāṃvāmanāsāpuṭaṃcadhṛtvā tamevacatu
ṣṣaṣṭivāraṃjapandvābhyāṃrandhrābhyāṃvāyuṃkuṃbha
yitvā (punaḥ tamevacatuṣṣaṣṭivāraṃ) punastamevaddhā

[folio 19b] having displayed the perfume and other gestures, having bowed with the gesture of reverence: 'Oṃ, reverence to that guru who is the very form of the chosen deity, whose ambrosial speech destroys the poison known as worldly existence', having struck the ground three times with the left heel, having clapped three times above the crown of the head with the forefinger and middle finger, having bound the ten directions with the sound of the forefinger and thumb, having dispelled all obstacles with celestial sight, and having made three ramparts of fire in the four directions by rotating the crossed hands in the shape of a trident three times around one's head, one should perform three breath-controls. There, having focused the mind on the mūlādhāra, having closed the right nostril with the right thumb, inhaling breath through the left while repeating the praṇava or the root mantra sixteen times, then having closed the left nostril with the little and ring fingers, retaining the breath through both openings while repeating that very [mantra] sixty-four times, then repeating that very [mantra] thirty-two times,