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# Laghustutih (vrittisameta) 101

Laghustutiḥ (vṛttisametā) 101

- **Language:** Sanskrit

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cāturvidhyamiti caturviṃśatibhedāḥ . tatrāpi dvyādikūṭacatuṣke sādihādibhedena  
dvaividhyamiti teṣāmaṣṭadhā bhedāḥ . teṣu ca pratyekaṃ caturdhā bheda iti  
catvāriṃśat . śuddhābhedāśca catvāraḥ . tena catuścatvāriṃśanmantrāḥ . teṣu  
trayāṇāṃ bījānāṃ pṛthak pṛthag jape na kramākramacintā . bālādibījānāṃ  
śuddhādibhedena pratyekaṃ cāturvidhyam . dvyādikūṭeṣu pratyekaṃ hāditvaṃ  
sāditvaṃ ca tatrāpi grāhyam . yadā samudāyajapastadā sṛṣṭau kramājjapaḥ .  
saṃhāre sthitau cākramataḥ . tatrāntyādyādyabījāntatve saṃhāro dvitīyabījāntatve  
sthitiḥ . tadetadabhipretyāhuḥ purāvidaḥ -

> there is a fourfold nature; thus there are twenty-four varieties. There too, in the four combinations of two and so forth, there is a twofold nature by the division into sādi and hādi; thus their varieties are eightfold. And among them, each has a fourfold variety; thus there are forty. And the pure varieties are four. Therefore there are forty-four mantras. Among them, when reciting the three seed syllables separately, there is no consideration of order or disorder. Of the seed syllables of Bālā and the rest, each has a fourfold nature by division into pure and so forth. In the combinations of two and so forth, the state of being hādi and the state of being sādi are also to be grasped there individually. When there is collective recitation, then in projection the recitation is in order; in withdrawal and maintenance, it is out of order. There, when ending with the last, first, and first seed syllables, it is withdrawal; when ending with the second seed syllable, it is maintenance. Intending this very point, the knowers of antiquity have said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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## Commentaries (1)

- [Laghustutivṛtti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.devistotra.laghustuti!laghustutivrtti.95) — Sanskrit

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