Comparative Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006575
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, L000, & L020
File Size: 21 MB

Page 341

332
INTRODUCTION
hymn in Appendix 23 while discussing the works contained in Appendix 5. • There are some incorrect readings in the said hymn which can be properly corrected if a correct manuscript can be obtained. As regards the hymn in Appendix 22, we would only note that the opening words of the 4th line of v. 1 should be 'मातमा तनयं' instead of 'मात मन्ति नयं ।'
APPENDEX 24 The hymn given here enumerates the names of 64 Yoginis. Another set of 64 names of Yoginis is given in vv. 19 to 28, Adh. 146 Agnipurāņa, which describes them as belonging to the eight families of Mātrkās, a set of 8 Yoginis being related to each of the eight Mātrkās. Still another set of 64 names is given at pp. 67-68 Mantra
mahodadhi and at p. 85 thereof is given the 91 lettered Mantra + of Yoginis, which is really an invocation for protection on offering being made to Yoginīs. We may refer the readers to the foot note on pp. 233-4 ante for other sets of names of 64 Yoginis. Rudrayāmala (Uttaratantra) contains a hymn to Yogini (see pp. 263-64), but there Yogini is the deity connected with Mūládhāra-cakra. Nirvāņakaliká (v. 5) gives the Jain Mantra * to be recited on offering oblation to
"ऊर्द्ध ब्रह्मांडतो वा दिवि गगनतले भूतले निष्कले वा पाताले वा तले वा सलिल पवनयोर्यत्र कुत्र स्थिता वा । क्षेत्रे पीठोपपीठादिषु च कृतपदा धूपदीपादिकेन प्रीतादेव्यः सदा नः शुभबलिविधिना पांतु वीरेन्द्रवंद्याः ॥ यां योगिनीभ्य स्वाहा ॥" योगिन्यो भीषणा रौद्रा देवताः क्षेत्ररक्षकाः । आगत्य प्रतिगृह्णन्तु जिनेष्टानुविधायिनः ।।१॥ ये रुद्रा रुद्र कर्माणो रौद्रस्थान निवासिनः सौम्याश्चैव तु ये केचित् सौम्यस्थाननिवासिनः ॥२॥ सर्वे सुप्रीतमनसः प्रतिगृह्णनित्वमं बलिम् । सिद्धिं यच्छन्तु नः क्षिप्रं भयेभ्यः पान्तु नित्यशः ॥३॥
Here is a Mantra of 6+ Yoginis from the writer's collection: " ए हो श्री क्ली हसौ चतुःषष्टियोगिनीभ्यो नमः ॥"