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nanu kimetadavagatāvavadhānanaipuṇyenetyāśaṃkyādyaślokaracanāyāṃ
svasyavicchittivaidagdhyaṃ sūcayan viśiṣṭahetukatvena viśeṣaṇamāha-
ananyetiyatra stutāvananyamanasa avidyamānamanyatra mano yasya tasya
madviracitāyāmasyāṃ stutāvevāvahitacetasaḥ sādhakasya puṃsastaṃ pratītyarthaḥ
. yadvānanyamanaso devyaikātmacetaso mameyaṃ stutiriti
asmatpadādhyāhāreṇānveyam . ādyavṛtte prathamaśloke
sphuṭamityabhidhāśaktyā natvākṣepādinā ekadvitripadakrameṇa
prathamadvitīyatṛtīyapādānupūrvyā atra dvitriśabdayoḥ
pūraṇapratyayāntārthatvaṃ bodhyam . tatpādasaṃkhyākṣaraistasya vṛttasya
pādasaṃkhyāyāstulyasaṃkhyākṣarai arthādādyapadye aimityādyakṣarātmakatvena
dvitīyapāde klīmiti dvitīyākṣarātmakatvena tṛtīyapāde sauriti
tṛtīyākṣarātmakatvena . atra hasthiteti viśeṣaṇāt ha iti visargastatra sthiteti
kṛtvā savisargatvaṃ labhyate . mantroddhāravidhiḥ proktavidyoddhāravidhānaṃ
kathito nirdiṣṭaḥ .

Now, one might ask: what is the use of expertise in attention for understanding this? Anticipating this, [the author,] indicating his own artistic ingenuity in composing the first verse, states the qualification on the grounds of having a specific cause: 'for one with single-minded focus' (ananyamanasaḥ)—that is, in this hymn of praise, for one who has no mind elsewhere, meaning toward that practicing adept whose mind is exclusively attentive to this hymn composed by me. Or, 'for one with single-minded focus' means of me, whose mind is unified in essence with the Goddess; this hymn belongs [to me], construing [the genitive] by supplying the word 'my'. 'In the first verse', in the opening stanza; 'clearly', by the literal denoting power (abhidhāśakti), not by implication or the like; 'in the sequence of one, two, and three quarters', according to the succession of the first, second, and third lines—here, the words 'two' and 'three' should be understood to signify ordinal numbers. 'By letters numbering the same as those quarters': by letters whose number is equal to the count of the quarters of that verse; that is to say, in the first quarter, consisting of the first syllable 'aim'; in the second quarter, consisting of the second syllable 'klīm'; in the third quarter, consisting of the third syllable 'sauḥ'. Here, by the qualification 'residing in ha' (hasthitā), 'ha' is the visarga, and because she resides there, it is endowed with a visarga. 'The rule for extracting the mantra', the procedure for extracting the declared vidyā, 'has been declared'—indicated.