Laghustavacarcastavau 5_923

5_923

iti . tathā ā ī pallavitaiḥ ā-ī iti śabdaśiraskairdvidvikramāt dvi dvi
varṇakramamāśritya parasparayutairanyonyaṃ kṛtasandhikaiḥ
kāmarājasaṃjñakasya dvitīyavarṇasyākāreṇa saha pratividyaṃ
vihitasaṃhitairityarthaḥ . tathā svarādibhirityāvṛttya svarāḥ ṣoḍaśādau yeṣāmiti
kṛtvā a ā-ī akā-ī ityādi akṣā-ī ityantam . evaṃ ā ā-ī ākā##-
tāvannāmnāṃ saṃkhyā (576) ṣaṭsaptatyuttarapañcaśatāni . atha taiḥ
kādyaiḥ kṣāntaiḥ punaḥ pañcatriṃśadvyañjanaiḥ sasvaraiḥ
ṣoḍaśasvarasaṃyojitaḥ kakākikītyādikramarūpairvidyādyavarṇasthānīyaiḥ
pūrvavanmadhyasaṃhitāpuraḥsaraṃ ka-ā-ī kakā-ī kakhā-ī ityādi
kakṣā-ī ityantam evaṃ kā-ā-ī kākā-ī kākhā-ī ityādi
kākṣā-ī ityantam . evaṃ kṣaḥ ā-ī ityādi kṣaḥ kṣā-ī ityantaṃ
tāvannāmnāṃ saṃkhyā (20160) ṣaṣṭyadhikaśatottaraviṃśatisahasrāṇi .
evaṃ pūrṇamaṇḍalavarṇairutpadyamānāni te tava yānyatyantaguhyāni
rahasyātirahasyāni khalu nāmāni traipuravidyārūpāṇi bhavanti saṃkhyayā
viṃśatisahasrebhyaḥ parebhyo'tiriktebhyastebhyo namastā vidyāḥ praṇamyā
ityarthaḥ . evaṃ samucitā tatsaṃkhyā (20736) etatprāk saṃvāditam .
etajjpavidhiḥ śrīmadārādhyamukhādevāvagantavyaḥ . śrīdevīrahasye tu-

And so on. Likewise, "sprouting with 'ā-ī'", that is, headed by the sound "ā-ī"; "two by two in succession", that is, resorting to the sequence of two phonemes at a time, "mutually joined", having their euphonic junction made with one another, meaning joined in continuous sandhi in each vidyā with the phoneme belonging to the second [seed] known as Kāmarāja. Likewise, taking "beginning with the vowels" again to mean "having the sixteen vowels at the beginning": a ā-ī, akā-ī, etc., up to akṣā-ī. In this way, ā ā-ī, ākā-..., so many names number five hundred and seventy-six (576). Then, with those letters from "ka" to "kṣa", namely the thirty-five consonants, "equipped with vowels", combined with the sixteen vowels in the sequential form of ka, kā, ki, kī, etc., occupying the position of the first phoneme of the vidyā, preceded by the medial sandhi as before: ka-ā-ī, kakā-ī, kakhā-ī, etc., up to kakṣā-ī; similarly, kā-ā-ī, kākā-ī, kākhā-ī, etc., up to kākṣā-ī; likewise, kṣaḥ ā-ī, etc., up to kṣaḥ kṣā-ī—the number of names of this type is twenty thousand one hundred and sixty (20,160). In this way, those names of yours generated by the phonemes of the full circle, which are indeed supremely secret, the most hidden of secrets, taking the form of the Tripura vidyās, "to those supreme twenty thousand"—exceeding twenty thousand—obeisance; the meaning is that those vidyās are to be bowed down to. Thus the exact total is twenty thousand seven hundred and thirty-six (20,736), which agrees with what was said earlier. The procedure for the meditative repetition of this must be learned solely from the mouth of the venerable master. But in the Śrīdevīrahasya: