Astika--------------------------Dge-lugs----------------------Shin-gon----------------------Tara

5. ankus`a "hook"

1. hook

2:3 ... ankus`a

11. hook

   

2:7 ... kars.a

... akars.an.a

6. pas`a "noose"

2. lasso

   

7. naraca "arrow"

 

3:3 ... van.a "arrow"

13. arrow &

8. pinaka-m "bow'

 

3:7 ... capa "bow'

bow

9. a-bhaya "unfearing"

 

4:1 ... sadhu "bravo!"

 

10. vara-da "boon-conferring"

 

4:2 ... tus.t.i "satisfying"

 

11. ghan.t.a "bell": "A reference to the clitoris" (KT&VT, p. 341, fn.108)

4. bell

4:4 ... rati "erotic desire in women"

(wife of god of sexual desire)

 
   

5:7 ... garbha "embryo"

14. [riding on] human corpse

13. dan.d.a "staff"

 

7:7 ... yas.t.i "staff"

 

16. mudgara: cf. Maudgalya-ayana, who had (by his mother's adulteries) acquired various step-fathers

 

8:1-2 ... hasa: cf. At.t.a-hasa ("step-father laughter"), name of the primordial god (according to the Linga Puran.a)

 

1. kapala-m "skull"

   

... bhr.kuti "frowning"

   

8:3 ... smita "smile"

15. Kalyan.a-da "greeting-giving"

   

9:3 ... padma "red water lily"

16. "red"

2. khat.va-anga "wood from funeral pyre"

   

19. ... dahana "consuming", holding brazier

3. khadga "sword"

 

10:4 ... yodha "weapon"

 

4. sphara "shield"

 

14:1 ... raks.a "protection"

 
       

ST, p. 363

SVFDL, p. 168

STTS, pp. 259-260

DTB, articles 275-299 (pp. 316-319)

KT&VT = Louise M. Finn: The Kulacud.aman.i Tantra and the Vamakes`vara Tantra with the Jayaratha Commentary. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986.

ST = William James Arraj: The Svacchandatantram. PhD diss, U. of Chicago, 1988.

SVFDL = Samten Gyaltsen Karmay: Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Serindia, London, 1988.

STTS = Dale Allen Todaro: An Annotated Translation of the "Tattvasamgraha" (Part 1). PhD diss, Columbia U., 1985.

Martin Willson (transl.): Deities of Tibetan Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom, 2000.