भर्गो देवस्य धीत्यनेनाधाररूपशिवात्माक्षरं गण्यते । महीत्यादिनाशेषं काम्यं रमणीयं दृश्यं शक्तिकूटं स्पष्टीकृतमिति । एवं पञ्चदशाक्षरं त्रैपुरं योऽधीते स सर्वान्कामानवाप्नोति । स सर्वांल्लोकाञ्जयति
bhargo devasya dhītyanenādhārarūpaśivātmākṣaraṃ gaṇyate | mahītyādināśeṣaṃ kāmyaṃ ramaṇīyaṃ dṛśyaṃ śaktikūṭaṃ spaṣṭīkṛtamiti | evaṃ pañcadaśākṣaraṃ traipuraṃ yo'dhīte sa sarvānkāmānavāpnoti | sa sarvāṃllokāñjayati
««The radiance of the god, dhī» — by this is counted the syllable of Śiva, having the form of a support; «mahi» and the rest — the whole desired, delightful, visible — the summit of power is made clear. Thus whoever studies the fifteen-syllabled Tripura [utterance] obtains all desires; he conquers all worlds».
2b466be4d952 · publicado 7 ago 2026, 5:19:24 UTC
Disponible enRUENPasa de verso en verso con
The analysis is finished, and its outcome is named: pañca-daśa-akṣaram traipuram, «the fifteen-syllabled Tripura [mantra]». This is the śrī-vidyā, the most famous mantra of the Śākta tradition; the whole book so far has been occupied with deriving its fifteen syllables from the thirty-two syllables of the gāyatrī. Now that the device is complete, it can be seen whole. A mantra everyone knows and acknowledges was taken; from it another was derived, one few acknowledge; and thereby the second was invested with the dignity of the first. This is common in the history of teachings and is not in itself corrupt — this is how every new thing rests on the old. What must be judged is the good faith of the derivation, and here it is mixed: sometimes from a root (8), sometimes from the written form (9), sometimes by assonance (7).
The promised outcome is this: «obtains all desires, conquers all worlds». What is promised is sarvān kāmān, «all desires» — and the Gītā says that those who ask for their needs get what they want, but that «their fruit has an end» (7.23). The promise is not false; it is modest — and modest precisely because it is fulfilled.
The syllable of Śiva is here called ādhāra-rūpa, «having the form of a support». The word ādhāra was discussed when reading Annapūrṇā (4.27): a support is the support of something, and nothing stands on itself alone.