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शब्दब्रह्मोल्लासः
[F 1]ॐ नमः सकलाध्यात्मतत्त्ववाचे' परात्मने । शब्दब्रह्मविवर्तकबीजायाक्षरमूर्तये ॥ १ ॥ अजिह्मपरमब्रह्मरवेरुदयदीपकः। प्रभोदयप्रभः शब्दब्रह्मोल्लासः प्रका[B 1]शताम् ॥ २ ॥ ॐकाराय नमस्तस्मै पारमेष्ठिकलात्मने । अहँश्चायोग आचार्य उपाध्यायो मुनिश्च यः ॥ ३ ॥ श्रीसिद्धचक्रसद्वीजस्वरूपं परमार्थता । अरहस्यरहस्यं यः सकलं वेद वेद सः ।। ४ ।। [F 2]आद्यान्त्यौ मन्त्रजीह्वार्णी नादबिन्दुकलान्वितौ । . अर्हत्सिद्धौ तथाचार्योपाध्यायौ समुनी स्तुमः ।। ५ ।।
1 °tatvavāce MS. * prakāsatām MS.
3 I do not understand this word. One of the meanings of the word arna is 'letters of the alphabet'. Even if one takes it in that rare sense, its connection to the word mantra is not clear because of the strange intervening word jihvā. Kansara suggests that perhaps ji is wrongly written for ji, and wonders whether jihvārņau could not mean 'uttered syllables'. He is also inclined to consider jīvya as a more plausible reading. I think that if at all the available reading is to be emended, mantrajīvārņau meaning ' letters whose life is the mantra' or 'letters constituting the life of the mantra' would be better as a reading.
