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Verse 10

Tripura

त्रिविष्टपं त्रिमुखं विश्वमातुर्नवरेखाः स्वरमध्यं तदीले । पुरं हन्त्रीमुखं विश्वमातू रवे रेखा स्वरमध्यं तदेषा । बृहत्तिथिर्दशा पञ्चादि नित्या सा षोडशी पुरमध्यं बिभर्ति ॥१०॥

त्रि-विष्टपम् । त्रि-मुखम् । विश्व-मातुः । नव-रेखाः । स्वर-मध्यम् । तत् । ईले । पुरम् । हन्त्री-मुखम् । विश्व-मातुः । रवे । रेखाः । स्वर-मध्यम् । तत् । एषा । बृहत्-तिथिः । दशा । पञ्च-आदि । नित्या । सा । षोडशी । पुर-मध्यम् । बिभर्ति ।

triviṣṭapaṃ trimukhaṃ viśvamātur navarekhāḥ svaramadhyaṃ tadīle | puraṃ hantrīmukhaṃ viśvamātū rave rekhā svaramadhyaṃ tadeṣā | bṛhattithiḥ daśā pañcādi nityā sā ṣoḍaśī puramadhyaṃ bibharti ||10||

三界の天、三面の御姿をもつ宇宙の母トリプラーを、我は讃える。九つの線を具え、その中心は「スヴァラ」(中核の点/音)である。これこそ不浄を滅する者の面をもつ「都(プラ)」、宇宙の母である。「ラヴァ」(響き)のうちに線があり、その中心は「スヴァラ」。十五のニティヤに始まる永遠なる彼女は、偉大なる月日(ティティ)たる第十六として、都の中心を担う。

I praise that (Tripurā), the heaven of three (worlds), three-faced, the Mother of the universe, having nine lines, whose center is the ‘svara’ (the central point/sound). This is the city (pura) with the face of the slayer (of impurities), the Mother of the universe; in the ‘rava’ (resonance) are the lines; its center is the ‘svara’. She, the eternal one beginning with the fifteen (nityās), the great lunar day (tithi), the sixteenth, bears the center of the city.

Śakti as Brahman (Tripurā/Śrīvidyā), nāda-bindu (sound-point) as the center of realizationMahavakya: Implicitly supports ‘Aham Brahmāsmi’/‘Tat tvam asi’ by identifying the central bindu (svaramadhya) with the ultimate reality realized inwardly; not a direct mahāvākya citation.AtharvaChandas: Prose / mixed tantric-upaniṣadic style (non-strict Vedic meter)