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Together with Trikhaṇḍā: along with the mudrā named Trikhaṇḍā; exalted: properly elevated, existing in supreme pre-eminence; residing in the first square enclosure: having their dwelling in the first square [wall]; resembling in brilliance, that is, in luster, the luster of the rising sun: equal to the glow of the young morning sun; consisting of consciousness: meaning established as massed consciousness. These mudrās indeed are explained by Paramaśiva as the presiding rulers of the nine cakras from the square enclosure up to the bindu. He clarifies this very point with "Abiding in the nine centers," etc.: the nine centers, having the forms of mūlādhāra, svādhiṣṭhāna, maṇipūraka, anāhata, the space between the brows, viśuddhi, lambikā, ājñā, and bindu, belong to her whose form is the worshiper; because of which, through the form transformed into the nine cakras belonging to the bindu, the powers of the nine Nāthas became transformed into the forms of the nine mudrās. This is the meaning. // 45 // 47