Shloka 80

ललितोपाख्याने जप-न्यास-योगप्रकरणम्

Lalitopākhyāna: Procedure of Japa, Nyāsa, and Yogic Installation

Devanagari script

ज्वलत्कालानलप्रख्या वरदाभयपाणयः / तारा न्यसेत्ततो ध्यायन्सर्वाभरणभूषिताः

Transliteration

jvalatkālānalaprakhyā varadābhayapāṇayaḥ / tārā nyasettato dhyāyansarvābharaṇabhūṣitāḥ

Translation

Tārā blazes like the fire of Time, her hands bearing the gestures of boon-giving and fearlessness. Then, meditating, one should place the nyāsa of Tārā, contemplating her adorned with every ornament.

Word by Word

• jvalat-kāla-anala-prakhyāḥ: resembling a blazing fire of time (cosmic conflagration)
• jvalat-kāla-anala-prakhyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of tārāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: jvalat (कृदन्त, √jval) + kāla (प्रातिपदिक) + anala (प्रातिपदिक) + prakhyā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन); samāsa: kālānala-prakhyā = kālānala-sadṛśī (determinative), with jvalat as upapada/qualifier

• vara-da-abhaya-pāṇayaḥ: having hands showing boon-giving and fearlessness
• vara-da-abhaya-pāṇayaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of tārāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vara (प्रातिपदिक) + da (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक from √dā) + abhaya (प्रातिपदिक) + pāṇi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन); samāsa: varada-abhaya-pāṇi = varadaśca abhayaṃ ca (mudrā) yasya pāṇiḥ (determinative over 'hands')

• tārāḥ: the Tārās (goddesses)
• tārāḥ: Karma (कर्म) of nyaset (to place/assign)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tārā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन)

• nyaset: should place/assign
• nyaset: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √nyas (धातु)
• Form: Vidhi-liṅ (विधिलिङ्, optative), Prathama-puruṣa (3rd/प्रथमपुरुष), Ekavacana (एकवचन); parasmaipada

• tataḥ: then/thereafter
• tataḥ: Kāla/Anukrama (काल/अनुक्रम)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), adverb (क्रियाविशेषण) of sequence

• dhyāyan: meditating
• dhyāyan: Karta (कर्ता) (implied agent)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dhyāyat (कृदन्त, √dhyai)
• Form: Vartamāna-kṛdanta (present active participle/शतृ), Puṃliṅga (पुंलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st), Ekavacana; agreeing with implied practitioner (saḥ)

• sarva-ābharaṇa-bhūṣitāḥ: adorned with all ornaments
• sarva-ābharaṇa-bhūṣitāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of tārāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक) + ābharaṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + bhūṣita (कृदन्त, √bhūṣ)
• Form: Strīliṅga (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन); samāsa: sarvābharaṇa-bhūṣita = sarvaiḥ ābharaṇaiḥ bhūṣitā (instrumental sense within compound)