Laghustutih (vrittisameta) 293

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[On the words] 'boddhavyā nipuṇam' ('should be thoroughly understood'). Here too, the vocative 'wife of Bhairava' is syntactically connected. A praise is speech that generates in oneself the wondrous thought, 'Ah, me! Ah, me!' through the description of the stream of qualities of the deity. This hymn of praise to you, Bhāratī, who are renowned as Tripurā, should be thoroughly understood—fully retained—by the wise, the discerning, directing their mind toward her, toward that Bhāratī, toward you. There, being about Tripurā-Bhāratī is first of all one reason. And he states another reason: 'where' (yatra), in which hymn of praise, for that man of undivided mind—whose mind is directed nowhere else, but rather on this alone—toward him, in the opening verse, in the first stanza, 'by letters corresponding to the number of its quarters' (tatpādasaṃkhyākṣaraiḥ), that is, by letters whose number is equal to the number of quarters of that [verse] (the instrumental case denotes a circumstance), by virtue of having letters of equal number, 'in the order of one, two, and three quarters' (ekadvitripadakrameṇa), that is, in the order of the first, second, and third quarters, the method for extracting the mantra was stated, was performed. The meaning is: where the mantra of venerable Bālā is extracted by having the first letter in the first quarter, the second letter in the second quarter, and the third letter in the third quarter. Of what sort? 'Along with the specific varieties' (viśeṣasahitaḥ), that is, accompanied by the specific varieties of the mantra of Tripurā; and the specific varieties are somehow extracted therein—this is the meaning. 'Clearly' (sphuṭam) means extracted directly to perception.