Shloka 17
Adhyaya 64 — Kalavati (Vibhavari) Offers Herself and the Padmini Vidya to Svarocisha
साहं प्राणप्रदायाद्य तां विद्यां स्वं तथा वपुः ।
प्रयच्छामि प्रतीच्छ त्वं प्रसादसुमुखो मम ॥
sāhaṃ prāṇapradāyādya tāṃ vidyāṃ svaṃ tathā vapuḥ / prayacchāmi pratīccha tvaṃ prasādasumukho mama
ゆえに、私は今日、生命の息を授けたのち、そのヴィディヤーと、さらに我が自らの姿・身をも授ける。どうか受け取り、私に慈悲を垂れたまえ。
FAQs
Boons are not merely transactional: the verse frames giving as self-involvement (vapuḥ) and asks for reciprocal grace—power should be received with responsibility and reverence.
Manvantara narrative material: illustrates how extraordinary capacities (vidyā, prosperity-control) are conferred within a particular time-cycle and its exemplars.
Granting prāṇa and vapuḥ suggests ‘ensoulment’ and ‘embodiment’ of the vidyā—i.e., the power becomes operative only when it takes form within the recipient’s life-force and identity.