Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 02

SR No.: 007689
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1862
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 24 MB

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BAUDDHA TRACTS FROM NEPAL.
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sanctified by the twelve greater and six lesser Tirthas, and by the edifices on the four mountains, governed by the seven Sages, honoured by the Yoginis, the eight Mátrikás, the eight Bhuiravas, Sinhini, Vyúghrini, Ganesu, Kumáru, Muhákálu, Håriti, Ilunumán, the ten ministers of wrath. In such a place, at such a time, before such a divinity, 1 (naming himself and family) perform this rite, with my wife and household.” The objects of the ceremony are then enuciated, generally, aversion of all evils, the preservation of health, and the attaiment of fortune. Most of the allusions have been already explained, and others belong to Brahmanical Hinduism. The name of the Lokadhátu, or division of the universe, Saha, is applicable apparently to the Ilimálnya range, and includes Kushmir, as we know from the Rája Tarangini'.
The ceremonial of the Tantras is distinguished by the repetition of mystical syllables, the employment of Yantrus, or diagrams, a superabundance of gesticulations, the adoration of the spiritual teacher, or Guru, and the fancied identification of the worshipper with the divinity worshipped. In all these, as well as
See As. Res. Vol. XV, p. 110, where Kashmir is termed, in the Nágari text (I, 172.), Sahalokadhátu, rendered erroneously
the essence of the world, the admissible, although not the technical purport of Lokadhátu, in composition with Saha, no available information then suggesting the latter to be a proper name, and the former a division of the Universe in Bauddha Geography. [For the explanation of the term Sahalokadhátu, world of patience, see Burnouf, "Introduction ", 594 – 7, and Köppen, "Religion des Buddha", I, 261.]